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“All is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that’s an axiom....”
– Dostoevsky
“The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and...”
– Samuel Adams
“Nothing remains the same for two consecutive moments. Heraclitus said we can...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
“A gentleman can live through anything.”
– Faulkner
“I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth,...”
– James Garfield
“The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.”
– Lao Tzu
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
– T.H. Huxley
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The Philosophy of Fire →
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“Forever is composed of nows.”
– Dickinson
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“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
– Emerson
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“O, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it...”
– Shakespeare
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Scientists working to develop helmets for US Army... →
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“What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!”
– Warner
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“The moment has come when everything stops to ripen.”
– Pavese
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“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure...”
– Voltaire
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“It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every...”
– Charles Sanders Peirce
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“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
– Thoreau
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“It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea...”
– Le Guin
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“The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.”
– Wendell Berry
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– Fitzgerald
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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
– Shakespeare
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“None of it is important or all of it is.”
– Steinbeck
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“Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing...”
– Stephen Jay Gould
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Marijuana inhibits pathological marker of... →
Remember when you were told “This is your brain on drugs”? Apparently, being on drugs may help your brain live longer.
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Wireless Electricity is Real and Can Change the... →
A revolution in the method of transmitting and receiving power is taking place, and will become available to consumers in the near future according to some of the companies involved.
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'Lens' Wind Turbines Magnify Power →
Resembling giant white rims, these offshore turbines have the potential to produce up to three times as much energy as a standard offshore one.
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“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of...”
– Elbert Hubbard
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1,270 Architects/Engineers Reveal Hard Evidence of... →
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Sheriffs want lists of patients using painkillers →
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“Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do...”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver.”
– Ambrose Bierce
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