"Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American."

-- Douglas Hofstadter

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“I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason. He can write. He's the best writer on that page, and I'd usually rather read him than others on that page I'm more likely to agree with.”
“In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.”
“In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.”
“As everything in this world is but a sham. Death is the only sincerity.”

Source : "Hagakure". Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.
“Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.”

Source : "Poetry Black, Poetry White". Fontaine (Paris), No. 19-20, March/April 1942.
“It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.”

Source : George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.255, Cosimo, Inc.
“There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.141, Da Capo Press
“It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.”

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