"It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

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“At first, I thought 'this series is going to be all about death and desecration,' but instead became a more complex landscape of human relationships. I hope I put something of these feelings into the portraits that I made of the characters, which were landscapes in themselves. An irony in the subject of crystal meth is how beautifully it resembles the desert sky.”

Source : "The day when Bill Murray got festive and Belle & Sebastian went techno" by Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2014.
“According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured, as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery. These percentages are 27 and 25 percent, respectively, if they passively comply with the felon's demands. Three times as many were injured if they used other means of resistance.”

Source : "Policy Lessons From Recent Gun Control Research". Article by Gary Kleck, 1986.
“Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.”

Source : "Colleagues, friends react to Steve Jobs' death, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2011.
“When we grow in spiritual consciousness, we identify with all that is in the world there is no exploitation. It is ourselves we're helping, ourselves we're healing.”
“The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.”
“I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.”

Source : "Rodney King: 'I had to learn to forgive'" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2012.
“Bottlenecks are usually at the tops of bottles.”
“It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.”

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