"I wish my mind was a dog and I could train it to go sit."

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Source : Dan McCall (1983). “Bluebird Canyon”

Dan McCall

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“I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative. It's a shame that science hasn't been taught that way, in a long time. It's usually the fact completely devoid of any human experience or any idea of how the scientist came to that conclusion.”

Source : "Neil deGrasse Tyson and Executive Producer Ann Druyan Talk COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY, Public Appetite for Science, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 17, 2014.
“Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation.”
“When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done”
“Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a worse sort of them...are fond, foolish, wanton, flibbergibs, tatlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without council, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, talebearers, eavesdroppers, rumor-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every way doltified with the dregs of the Devil's dunghill.”
“I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.”
“A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.”
“There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.”
“And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to look with horror on the greatest part of mankind? Plutarch, it is well known, has observed very justly that it is better not to believe in a god than to believe him to be a capricious and malevolent being.”

Source : Richard Price (1983). “The Correspondence of Richard Price: February 1786-February 1791”

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