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"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them." »Thomas Sowell
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"Agent Smith I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." »Matrix, The
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"There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things." »Robert Lynd
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"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril." »Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
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"Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life." »Meryl Streep
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"Water generally flows downhill in this area." »Bob Bennett, WDIV News 4, Detroit, reporting on a flood that destroyed some suburban basement apartments.
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"R&b and pop presented by the bay area cofield twins that brings Duality to their audience" »Stephanie D Love
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""R&b and pop presented by the bay area cofield twins that brings Duality to their audience"" »Duality
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"Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage." »Frederick Buechner
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""Young, R&b and pop presented by the bay area cofield twins that brings Duality to their audience"" »Duality
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"The world is content with setting right the surface of things." »John Henry Newman
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"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath." »Michael Caine
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"Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery." »Paul Valery
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"Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle." »G. K. Chesterton
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"Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience." »Randolph Bourne
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"Look beneath the surface let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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""Time is the measurement of the rotation of the Earths surface around the Circumference of it's Axis"" »Tom Zegan
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"Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." »Jacob Braude
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"Some says that genetic engineering is within the scope of the God! Well, it was so, that area would have been encircled with the impassable high walls! Mankind cannot lose its time with this kind of religious craps! Genetic engineering is our garden!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth." »Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful
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"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'" »Carl Gustav Jung
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"A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth." »Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beatiful.
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"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself." »Franz Xavier Kroetz
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"God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."" »Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
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"Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance." »Graham Clarke
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"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface." »Aldous Huxley
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"A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing." »Magha
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"A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle" »Henry David Thoreau
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