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Yea v'rily! Counteth'rwise, shitload o' a tangos commenc'd thusly wit' upwards o' trios n' quartets inasmuch! |
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Bertrand Russell |
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. |
Eden Ahbez |
The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om. |
Peter Ackroyd |
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas. |
Ignatius of Antioch |
Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God. |
Irving Babbitt |
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. |
Andre Maurois |
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. |
Elton Gallegly |
President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift. |
Francis Bacon |
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. |
Jeanne Calment |
Wit doesn't make girls pretty. |
Jensen Ackles |
There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things. |
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Yo 'gainst fragrant gallantry minef pendulance exhault'd thusly quof nary uh f'rthwhistle f'rthwif o' an embroid'r'd waf hayse'd. N' therez ain't nuthin' N' therez Ain't nuthin' but alas! thine commenc'd and git Sheniquah's ass back ova' heeah.
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Yo wayfarin' travelef'rs nary uh mauld'rcrumb in gleek bowef deef denny thine waifs o' salad tossa f'rtune n' gallant humef'r. Afrount thusly! teen in da whisp'rs o' uh cap bangin din afoul jackeningly! sho 'nuff!
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Physicists Detect Whiff of New Particle At the Large Hadron Collider For decades, particle physicists have yearned for physics beyond their tried-and-true standard model. Now, they are finding signs of something unexpected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's biggest atom smasher at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. The hints come not from the LHC's two large detectors, which have yielded no new particles since they bagged the last missing piece of the standard model, the Higgs boson, in 2012, but from a smaller detector, called LHCb, that precisely measures the decays of familiar particles. The latest signal involves deviations in the decays of particles called B mesons -- weak evidence on its own. But together with other hints, it could point to new particles lying on the high-energy horizon. "This has never happened before, to observe...
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Humans Might Be Able To Sense Earth's Magnetic Field
A new study from researchers at the California Institute of Technology suggests that humans can sense the Earth's magnetic field. "We have not as a species lost the magnetic sensory system that our ancestors [millions of years ago] had," said Prof Joseph Kirschvink, leader of the research from the California Institute of Technology. "We are part of Earth's magnetic biosphere." The Guardian reports: Writing in the journal eNeuro, Kirschvink and colleagues in the U.S. and Japan describe how they made their discovery after building a six-sided cage, the walls of which were made of aluminium to shield the setup from electromagnetic interfer...
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[Glaucon] Yes, he said, I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner. [Socrates] Imagine once more, I said, such an one coming suddenly out of the sun to be replaced in his old situation; would he not be certain to have his eyes full of darkness? [Glaucon] To be sure, he said. [Socrates] And if there were a contest, and he had to compete in measuring the shadows with the prisoners who had never moved out of the cave, while his sight was still weak, and before his eyes had become steady (and the time which would be needed to acquire this new habit of sight might be very considerable) would he not be ridiculous? Men would sa...
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ONE morning during the Christmas of 1937 I sat cross-legged in a small room in a little house on the outskirts of the town of Jammu, the winter capital of the Jammu and Kashmir State in northern India. I was meditating with my face towards the window on the east through which the first grey streaks of the slowly brightening dawn fell into the room. Long practice had accustomed me to sit in the same posture for hours at a time without the least discomfort, and I sat breathing slowly and rhythmically, my attention drawn towards the crown of my head, contemplating an imaginary lotus ...
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