Quotable Quotes

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. - Edmund Wilson

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. - George Iles

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"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." ~E

Thoughts of the day

What is a good process to find the optimal extent to which a problem should be attempted to be solved, before pushing the whole problem or part of it out of the problem's initial domain?

What are the important criterias to consider in this decision process?

What is the most generic method of solving a problem?

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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. - Henry Fielding

Life

I awe with wonder,
at
the simplicity yet richness
the beauty weaved into mystery
the vastness with the minutest of details
the grand puzzle, the ancient question
presented in such meticulous arrangement!

It's but a Game
to be played with
hope, fear, love, happiness, sorrows and wonder
to seek the answers.

Revelation

'I' date back to the origin of the universe itself. I have not come from the universe. The universe emerged into me.

I am, the universe.

Hello there!

A line from "Desperate Housewives", ep 19

"I love him enough to let him hate me"

Interpretation

Cohesion

Yes

Mean people suck.

Me

I will not succumb. I will prevail. I will survive. I will succeed.

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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. - Samuel Johnson

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. - Stephen Jay Gould

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. -E.

Being kind to the Self

Once I've taken the pressure of keeping myself happy, out of myself, I have become happy again, or at least, I am not as unhappy as I was before.

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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. Peter De Vries, "The Mackerel Plaza," 1958

I'm still an atheist, thank God. Luis Bunuel (1900 - 1983)

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. Georges DuhamelFrench author (1884 - 1966)

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. Woody Allen (1935 - )

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. Woody Allen (1935 - )

Stupidometer

It calculates the amount of stupidity of a person, direclty from the time, that person takes between facing a problem and googling it.

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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
- Paul Gauguin

Survival of the fittest

The game of extinction.
Played so hard
So cruel.

The game of life and death
Played so immaculate
So careless.

The race is so inescapable.
The result so unchangeable.

Endlessly played
In an
Endless progression.

To the Silent Listener

Powerful you might be, but, you have disappointed me with the amount of kindness you display. I think I do a better job than you. What a shame, isn't it? Or may be not. In the name of infinity one can override mathematical truths -- And once you are out of mathematics, you can tout, almost anything.