"The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable."

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Source : "What is this foolish lust for uncertainty?" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

Julian Baggini

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“I wanted to create my own world, a world full of color, where everyone could play. One big party that never ends.”
“Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.”
“When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.”

Source : "Mr. Comics Talks Comics". Wired News Interview, www.wired.com. July 21, 2006.
“Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political systemâ€¦The central feature of the American constitutional systemâ€”the separation of powersâ€”exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers.”
“Time means nothing to me.”
“You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.”
“If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.”
“Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.”

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