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"A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood." »Chinese Proverb
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"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this." »Blaise Pascal, quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940
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"[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit." »Battaille
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"Einstein said that God does not play dice with the universe. He was right, but not in the way he meant. God doesn't play dice with the universe because the universe doesn't need him. The craps table is set up and running. Whether or not God put it there is besides the point." »Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel)
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"You are a child of the universe, no less than the moon and the stars you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should." »Max Ehrmann
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"universe is blind; it cannot see us; we must find a way to show ourselves to it and science is the way to open the eyes of the universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A man said to the universe 'Sir, I exist' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.'" »Stephen Crane
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"However infinite the universe may be, our true and practical universe is still the surroundings of the house we live in." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe." »Gene Roddenberry
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"A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."" »Stephen Crane
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"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"If God is the master of the universe, then what are we? The slaves of the universe? If so, let each man become proud Spartacus!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines." »Richard Buckminster Fuller
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." »Unknown
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." »Rich Cook
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"In this vast universe, we are condemned to feel tiny; megalomaniac is the one who cannot feel the true dimensions of this universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed." »W. C. Fields
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"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief." »Gerry Spence
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"A closed mouth gathers no foot." »Unknown
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"A closed mouth gathers no feet." »Anonymous
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"The worst prison would be a closed heart." »Unknown
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"In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without." »Henri Cartier-Bresson
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"A closed mouth catches no flies." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"A great many open minds should be closed for repairs." »Toledo Blade
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"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see." »John Lennon, "Strawberry Fields"
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"A closed mind is a good thing to lose." »Anonymous
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"If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay." »Robert Joseph Bob Dole
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"Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot." »Steve Post
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit." »Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk
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"The universe does not have a purpose, but we do have! Our purpose is to re-shape this purposeless universe in a way that it will not be able to kill us!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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