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"The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be." »Raymond Chandler
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"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A." »Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter"
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"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." »Leo Tolstoy
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"The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future." »Frank Herbert
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"Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match." »Isaac Asimov
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"I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha--which is to demean oneself." »Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
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"The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service." »James A. Perkins
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