"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."

-- Henry Ford

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“I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own.”
“I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.”
“Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.”

Source : Joan Halifax, Eric Berne (1967). “The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom”, Grove Pr
“Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.”

Source : John of Salisbury (2009). “The Metalogicon: A Twelfth-century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium”, p.104, Paul Dry Books
“Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack.”

Source : "Ramsey Theory". Ronald L. Graham and Joel H. Spencer, "Scientific American", July 1990.
“It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.”
“Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.”
“You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up.”

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