Wisdom in SpaceAll progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
-- Samuel Butler
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman
Too much [central] control freezes the system into limited configurations; too little causes it to wander aimlessly. Only systems that hover on the border between order and chaos exhibit the needed general stability and capacity to explore the universe of possible solutions to challenges.
-- Stuart A. Kauffman (Sciam (Nov 2006))
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
-- Claude Monet
Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.
-- Patti Smith (Gloria/Horses)
Ideology, particularly in its shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity to apprehend and appreciate irony.
-- Harold Bloom
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
-- Abba Eban
The parochialism of the present -- the way our eyes follow the ball and not the game -- is dangerous.
-- Ronald Wright (A Short History of Progress)
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
-- NYC Detective
