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"The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals."
"That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it."
"I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes."
"I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience."
"At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever"
"The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning."
"Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does."
"Stress never feels as natural as peace does"
"Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so."
"A true masterpiece does not tell everything."
"The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed."
"Time does not exist - we invented it"
"Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation."
"To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone."
"Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man."
"Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me."
"30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness."
"Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles."
"It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity."
"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
