"Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role."

-- Edward Abbey

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“The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the elements, seemed inextricably to blend with the creed of her pioneer forefathers that "it is better farther on"-- only instead of farther on in space, it was farther on in time, over the horizon of the years ahead instead of the far horizon of the west.”
“Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.”
“Kids can't look up to girls who are trying to be growner than they are.”
“Navigation is about wayfinding, you can't treat it as separate because many other things run parallel with it. If you look at studies in wayfinding, everything from exhibit design to building the cathedrals, it's about creating a complete system. It's about looking at the whole.”
“Algorithms dont do a good job of detecting their own flaws.”
“I donâ€™t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”
“That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and religion but to the flexibility, in both the physical and metaphysical senses, of the human brain.”

Source : Susan Jacoby (2005). “Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism”, p.132, Macmillan
“In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.”

Source : Douglas R. Hofstadter (2008). “I Am a Strange Loop”, p.363, Basic Books

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