"The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious."

-- John B. S. Haldane

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“Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.”

Source : John Carmack's plan of Quake 3 Arena Project, www.bluesnews.com. May 15, 2000.
“When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else.”
“Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.”

Source : "Queens of the Stone Age enlist army of skeletons for 'witch'" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. October 11, 2005.
“You have to look in the mirror and see that what you're wearing looks good on the body you have now. Wearing a larger size is just wearing a larger size.”
“The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have no other sanction than the obligations of good faith; and which oppose general considerations of peace and justice to the impulse of any immediate interest and passion.”
“The truth is that we wonâ€™t receive the support we need until we ask for it. Just because we can do it all doesnâ€™t mean we should. And when we donâ€™t speak up about our needs, weâ€™re asking our loved ones to read our mindsâ€”and then we resent them when they fail our test. By not being open and honest about the support we need, weâ€™re selling ourselves short and setting our relationships up for failure.”
“Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.”

Source : 1832 On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.
“We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.”

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