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“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

“Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.”

“Creationists don't want equal time, … they want all the time there is.”

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

“The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.”

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"Human consciousness isn’t optimized for anything, except maybe helping feral hominids survive in the wild."

— Charles Stross

Literature1964

#mind

"I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country — energy and malaise."

— Jimmy Carter

Politics1965–2024

#time

"I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems... you can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why …"

— Madonna (entertainer)

Music1958

#life

"From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat w…"

— George S. Patton

Military1885–1945

#religion