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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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"Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"A kind
Of excellent dumb discourse." »William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 3 scene 3
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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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"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse." »John Locke
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"Read not to contradict and confute…nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." »Sir Francis Bacon, O Magazine, April 2003
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"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men." »Samuel Johnson
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"Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." »Francis Bacon
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever." »Virginia
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"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness." »Helen Keller
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"Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse." »Henry Tuckerman
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"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue." »Izaak Walton
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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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"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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"So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small." »Emil Wiechert
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"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection." »Buddha
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"If with a stranger thou discourse, first learn, By strictest observation, to discern If he be wiser than thyself, if so, Be dumb, and rather choose by him to know; But if thyself perchance the wiser be, Then do thou speak, that he may learn by thee." »Randolph
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"Seven things characterise the wise man, and seven the blockhead. The wise man speaks not before those who are his superiors, either in age or wisdom. He interrupts not others in the midst of their discourse. He replies not hastily. His questions are relevant to the subject, his answers, to the purpose. In delivering his sentiments he taketh the first in order first, the last, last. What he understands not he says, ?I understand not.? He acknowledges his error, and is open to conviction. The reverse of all this characterises the blockhead." »The Talmud
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