"You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine."

-- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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“Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self. Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.”
“If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and feel anything is possible.”
“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”
“When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought”
“For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.”
“Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one's soul.”
“If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property”
“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.”

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