philosophy

"Our growing affluence has allowed us to shift from being bargain shoppers buying branded commodities to becoming mini-connoisseurs, flexing our taste with a thousand little indulgences that sets us ap…"

"The Gordon Equation is as close as being a physical law, like gravitation or planetary motion, as we will ever encounter in finance."

"It is my interpretation that on the deepest archetypal level the feminist movement is partially fueled by an intuitive sensing of the decay and demise of the male. Women are rushing in to take men's p…"

"If you were to split a seashell in half and look at it, that's what's happening in your nose. ...ll of this ...evolved for a reason... ir that comes in through the nose is slowed down... filtered... h…"

"If goods and services become more valuable as they become more plentiful, and if they become cheaper as they become valuable, then the natural extension of this logic says that the most valuable thing…"

"Orange County, with its signature long lines of tall palm trees, was working toward being “max-frilled,” as the slang had it, but at least it didn’t have the touches of L.A. The post office didn’t off…"

"My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent."

"If on the one hand the Scholastics and Alchemists seem to be utterly at variance, and the Eclectics on the other hand quite at one, yet, strictly examined, it is altogether the reverse. The former, in…"

"While being unconcerned with matters of jurisdictions, Archbishop John was ruthless and intolerant towards Clergy who were lax and indifferent in matters of spiritual integrity. For this he was hated …"

"Just as Cain hated and eventually killed Abel over this , many religious wars have been fought and are being fought between various groups who think their way to God is the only right way and any who …"

"I know what it feels like to have a broken nose. And ain't nobody hit you in it. It's really cause that shit that you snorted and put all in it. That time you thought I was finished no I just experime…"

"he rooms which had been placed at my disposal by the American Museum of New York became temporarily unavailable. ...e determined to rent a house in New Haven, Conn., and thither the laboratory was rem…"

"“You have to admit, half the people who work here are mildly autistic; poor social skills, the ability to obsess on anything numerical or repetitive, the odd outfits, the paranoia and the sense of con…"

"Madonna's got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being."

"My brother works for a forestry commission. He writes only in green ink to persuade his bosses to make it a standard ecological colour for all forestry business. I asked him what colour ink he would u…"

"C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without havin…"

"Something as biologically fundamental as death ought to be in the very fabric of evolution virtually from the beginning."

"The disdain for culture expressed by Johst and Fanon is not identical, however. Both despise the deceit of culture, but for opposite reasons. For Johst, culture is in itself a fraud, the cheap talk of…"

"Modi told me the last straw for him with regard to NDTV was when one of their correspondents Vijay Trivedi, accompanied him in a helicopter for an interview. When he started asking the same old insult…"

"New diseases like syphilis seemed to call for new and "stronger" medicines; and this became one of the stock arguments for resort to the Paracelsian chemical pharmacopeia and mystical medical philosop…"