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-- Dodie Smith

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“Harmonizing religion and science makes you seem like an open-minded and reasonable person, while asserting their incompatibility makes enemies and brands you as â€œmilitant.â€ The reason is clear: religion occupies a privileged place in our society. Attacking it is off-limits, although going after other supernatural or paranormal beliefs like ESP, homeopathy, or political worldviews is not. Accommodationism is not meant to defend science, which can stand on its own, but to show that in some way religion can still make credible claims about the world.”
“Most folks call them green onions, but they're really scallions.”

Source : Song: Christmas Dragnet
“Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.”

Source : "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.
“The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.”
“Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.”
“Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?”
“One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.”
“I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.”

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