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“At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.”

“The Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle”

“:"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

“The whole doctrine of original sin, the Fall, the vicarious atonement, the placation of the Almighty by blood—all this is abhorrent to me. The spirit-guides do not insist upon these aspects of religion.”

“Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - His Life, All His Works, And More”

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Resonant Thoughts

"One has to see a painter in his own place to get an idea of his worth. I went back there and I appreciate in a new light the paintings that I had seen in the Museum and that had struck me as middling.…"

— Eugène Delacroix

Art1798–1863

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"When she gets into negotiations with her European counterparts about trade arrangements, could she remind them that cake exists to be eaten and cherries exist to be picked."

— Iain Duncan Smith

Politics1954

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"Indira Gandhi left for Bihar by a chartered plane. Rajiv Gandhi was one of the pilot's of this plane. This proved to be his last flight."

— Rajiv Gandhi

Politics1944–1991

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"Three distinct geometries on S7 arise as solutions of the classical equations of motion in eleven dimensions. In addition to the conventional riemannian geometry, one can also obtain the two exception…"

— François Englert

Science1932

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