"Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!"

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“Evidently you do not trust me. This does not predispose me to trust you.”

“My fees are not too high. Your wage scale may simply be too low.”

“My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.”

““Why not alter the habits of a lifetime and speak with candour?” asked Shimrod. “Truth, after all, need not be only the tactic of last resort.”

“I suspect that the word was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.”

“Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.”

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"As you can well imagine, any nuclear bombing study that neglected to target Moscow would be laughed out of the room. Consequently, two of RAND’s brightest mathematicians were assigned the task of dete…"

— Samuel T. Cohen

Science1921–2010

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"Witzel is finally compelled to fall back on open pleading as follows: "any archaeologist should know from experience that the unexpected occurs and that one has to look at the right place". In other w…"

— Shrikant Talageri

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"Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it cannot have been the sort of God that we need to explain the origin…"

— Richard Dawkins

Science1941

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"I'm wondering how the new crop of teens and twentysomethings became so afraid of emotion and the expression thereof.* Did their parents teach them? Did they learn it somewhere else? Is this a spontane…"

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Literature1964

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