"I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young."
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"The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen. suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see."
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"You're already a financial trader. You might not think of it in just this way, but if you work for a living, you're trading your time for money. Frankly, it's just about the worst trade you can make. Why? You can always get more money, but you can't get more time."
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"I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead."
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"Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one."
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"Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?"
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"The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win"
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"Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes."
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"For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale."
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"Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard."
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"It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His."
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"Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day."
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"Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty."
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"Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity."
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"Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer."
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"Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion."
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"I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story."
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"Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense."
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"Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others."
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"Question all information when you receive it. You might not even trust me Look at me, I've got a blanket over me head."
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