"SchrÃ¶dinger's cat has a 50% quantum chance of coming out of the box alive and a 50% quantum chance of coming out dead. If you got in the box with it, the same would apply to you. So you really don't want to do that."

-- David Papineau

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“My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.”
“Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.”
“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
“There are people who live lives little different than the beasts,and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept whatever happens day to day without struggle or question or regret. To them things just are, like the earth and sky and seasons.”

Source : Celeste De Blasis (1985). “Wild Swan”, Bantam Books
“The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.”

Source : Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.13, Grove Press
“Forgiveness frees the forgiver.”
“Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.”
“There's no question that increased formal credentials can give you an advantage. The question is, is it the best advantage you can buy with the amount of money and time you're going to spend?”

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