"You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."

-- Hector Hugh Munro

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“But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.”
“Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.”
“People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.”
“I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.”
“I have to be a ginger for 3 weeks.”
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”

Source : "The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future" by Theodore J. Kaczynski, ("Control of Human Behavior", item 145), 1995.
“The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”

Source : "Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws". A letter to Catherine the Great, 1774.
“Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.”

Source : Thomas Starr King (1864). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.394

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