"... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk; its utility is in offering a better alternative, along with a lesson on how thinking goes wrong."

-- Michael Shermer

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“Anyway, how are you and Ramona doing?' Uh... you know. Pretty good.' Have you said the L-Word yet?' The L-Word? You mean? Lesbian?' Uh... No. The other L-Word.' ?' Okay. Uh, It's "love." I wasn't trying to trick you or anything.”
“I usually wear casual clothes to the office. I wear a suit maybe two or three times a month, and usually only when I need to meet with the head office.”
“It feltâ€”nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinosâ€”that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.”
“Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”

Source : "The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 657, 2006.
“No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.”

Source : Felix Riesenberg (1926). “Vignettes of the Sea”
“There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.”
“When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed”

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