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Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with
the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
It's nice to think that one could, even here and now, be whisked away just by hitchhiking.
A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.
You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one.
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands.
The kid was deliberately and maliciously watching television at him.
You made us what you would not dare to be yourselves. Yet you will not acknowledge us.
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
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