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The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. ↗

— David Deutsch

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Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. ↗

— Louis E. Boone

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Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them. ↗

— William Falconer

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Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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