"Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion."
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"Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones."
"So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress."
"The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good."
"It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way."
"What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does."
"One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him."
"Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm."
"A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there."
"Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm."
"Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest."
"He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time."
"The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand."
"Where does the dentist go when he leaves the room?"
"Does killing time damage eternity?"
"If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?"
"I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs."
"Evangelistic preaching is what Daddy does, I never thought I would."
"The question is, when does the therapeutic community end and the reality kick back in Then, what do you do with them"
"Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought."