"I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true."

-- Michael Shermer

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“Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.”
“Iâ€™ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create, invent. The rest is easy. The difficult part is the beginning.”
“When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, youâ€™re free.”
“I hate the neologism "owned" for "scored a victory over". I have no intention of owning anyone, and nobody will ever own me.”
“We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion, because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has no role in religion, because not only do we tolerate our religious differences, we celebrate them.”
“True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.”
“In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.”
“Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.”

Source : Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.167

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