"Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Dirty Quotes #Self Quotes #Kind Quotes

“The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.”
“But the average person doesnt have that much imagination. They just want to be entertained. They want to have the tableau presented for them. They dont want to participate beyond a certain point. They want the safety of the herd, to be catered to, sit back and enjoy.”
“What's interesting to me is that in the late twentieth century it seems that there's scarcely a part of the world that doesn't have some capitalist return that can be realized providing that this area's made accessible and resources can be extracted from it.”

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“Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.”
“I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.”
“I open journal, I look at the picture and I remember where I was. And I remember the time of day, the temperature of the air, what music was playing, or who was talking to me, or who was looking over my shoulder and what conversations we had and the smells of the earth and the time of year it was. It's all there for me in a way that we don't get looking at a snapshot. Most of us look back at a snapshot from ten years ago and say, where was that? We don't even remember where we were.”

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“We are born by accident into a purely random universe.”

Source : Robert Silverberg (2014). “The Stochastic Man”, p.4, Open Road Media
“For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.”

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