"What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."

-- Voltaire

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“Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes; Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. . . . . A blockhead with melodious voice, In boarding-schools may have his choice.”
“I think caring more about flags than people is an issue. I'd like to see that change.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth might end on December 21, 2012. It's a profound absence of awareness of the laws of physics and how nature works. So they're missing some science classes in their training in high school or in college that would empower them to understand and to judge when someone else is basically just full of it. Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.”
“Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.”
“There are lots of random blog posters on places like Gamespot or NeoGAF or whatever who show a clearer understanding of Braid than people who are all, "I'm all about games, and narrative and meaning, and I write a blog just to tell you about how I analyze all these things." Those people have the same hit rate as your general forum poster. So that's given me a cynical response to that whole community, which is just that, "Guys, are you sure you're qualified to do this?" And that sounds asshole-ish, and mean and snarky, but that's just how I'm feeling right now.”
“My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.”
“Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.”

Source : Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.126, Harmony
“My code of life and my personal bushido is honour, respect, loyalty, courage and surrender.”

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