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So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#bitter #bitter truth #china #companies #enlisted

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#hadn #i #looked #me #ordered

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#communism #country #democracy #over #soviet

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#central #exist #existence #fact #general

The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#community #heard #hitler #international #international community

For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#been #begin #big #big bang #billion

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#every #experience #generates #involved #mind

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#assign #beyond #continuing #entities #extensions

The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#around #been #billions #bubbles #bursts

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#animal life #balanced #cannot #exactly #exist