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“Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as readily as theology, or a channeled Atlantean priest as readily as a biblical prophet.”
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“"What the hell'd you let them break your spirit for?" You know, their lives ran in circles so small. Ah, they thought they'd seen it all. And they could not make a place for a girl who'd seen the ocean.”
Source : Song: Memories of East Texas, Album: Short Sharp Shocked
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“Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die.”
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“It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.”
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“I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary.”
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“Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.”
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“The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.”
Source : "NASA rover wakes up on Mars" By Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2004.
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“Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive completeness would be, at least, a self-illusion. Perfection can here be obtained by the individual student only in the subjective sense that he communicates everything he has been able to see.”
Source : Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.33, Simon and Schuster