"The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish."

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R. Scott Bakker

#Long Quotes #World Quotes #Anguish Quotes

“How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.”
“In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.”
“I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day.”
“While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support.”
“I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping.”
“As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.'”
“While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be rational for me to jump into the canal. But I have no reason to jump. I merely think I do. And, if some dangerous treatment would save your life, but you don't know that fact, it would be irrational for you to take this treatment, but that is what you have most reason to do.”
“My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.”

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