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My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#dread #fear #follow #humble #inmost

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#emotional #evidence #factors #faith #host

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#comes #naturally #requires #science #thinking

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#internet #lies #longer #open #paper

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#history #human #human history #nonlinear #unpredictable

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#arrow #causal #consciousness #emergence #exploring

I meddled in things that man must leave alone. ↗

— R. C. Sherriff

#i #leave #man #must #things

I do not think this makes a lot of sense, and I think we should rely on the Park Service to implement the regulations that they have in place with the restrictions so that people can enjoy our parks. ↗

— Don Sherwood

#i #i do #i think #implement #lot

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool. ↗

— Robert E. Sherwood

#damn #damn fool #fool #gullible #imaginative

He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts. ↗

— Robert E. Sherwood

#blasts #brave #derision #efforts #first