December 2011
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For many people, abstract thinking is fatiguing work—for me, on good days, it is...
– Nietzsche
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Why Sugar Makes Us Sleepy (And Protein Wakes Us... →
A very interesting article…
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For Fear You Will Be Alone
For fear you will be alone
you do so many things
that aren’t you at all
-Richard Brautigan
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I don’t think a person who hasn’t developed some mathematical sense is capable...
– Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
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There is no god and that’s the simple truth. If every trace of any single...
– Penn Jillette
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The problem for me is to transfer a detached intellectual skepticism into a way...
– Aldous Huxley
”There still remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it...
– Christopher Hitchens (via existenceandidentity)
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other...
– Jorge Luis Borges
Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see ‘We are the proud parents of a child...
– George Carlin
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The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is...
– Christopher Hitchens
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Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody’s ear getting cut...
– David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
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At about the age of six or seven, I realized that of all the invisible powers...
– Herman Hesse
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