"Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close."

-- Carl Sagan

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“And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic towers, And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky”

Source : John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.82, A&C Black
“I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.”
“I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem.”
“The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.”
“It's better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn't want to be there”
“The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.”

Source : "The passion killer" by Jonathan Romney, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2000.
“The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.”
“My most smelly job was at a kennels and cattery, and I basically spent all day scooping poop.”

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