"I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes." — Uncle Walt

Category: quotes

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Expectations

Post date September 3, 2007

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man.

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Empires

Post date July 28, 2007

“…empires rise only to fall.”

Guy Gugliotta, ‘The Maya Glory and Ruin’, National Geographic, August 2007

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Bibles…

Post date July 17, 2007

“I don’t believe in bibles: no book has a monopoly on truth”

Peter Singer, Animal Liberation, Preface to the 1990 edition

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Math and Science

Post date June 26, 2007

“Math and Science are the how, but humanity is the why.”

George Lucas

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Punishment

Post date June 11, 2007

“Societies law punishes bad people. Murphy’s law punishes good people”

Georgia Lass, Dead like Me, Pilot

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