"When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation. This is true enough, but not really a positive argument. After mechanistic explanation became popular, infidels liked to restrict causality to the chain of causes in an eternal material universe, pointing out that no supernatural cause was then necessary. Plausible, but still rather defensive. Today's skeptic can do better. In all likelihood, the universe is uncaused. It is random. It just is."

-- Taner Edis

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“Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pinesâ€”generous, gum-yielding treesâ€”to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.”

Source : Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.21, Penguin
“Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.”
“I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy.”
“Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has made this world, I should not wish to be that God. The world's wretchedness would rend my heart.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.68, Booklassic
“If when you hear a song by OK Go you conjure up thoughts of a gigantic Rube Goldberg device or treadmills or drones or perfectly executed dance routines, then you know that this is a band that is masterful at coming up with amazingly creative music videos.”

Source : "OK Go Drops New Zero-Gravity Video". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.
“In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and Im never going to break the world record for the five miles. Its partly genetics; Im just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?”
“Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.”

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