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Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end. ↗

— Anonymous

#dhammapada #theravada #buddhism

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem. ↗

— Whitney M. Young

#liberalism #people #problem #related #seems

Personally, I think sex should be like math. At school. No one really cares if they're crap at math. They even proclaim it. They'll say to anyone, "Yeah, I don't mind science and English, but I'm absolutely shithouse at math." And other people will laugh and say,"Yeah, me too. I would have a clue about all that logarithm shit. You should be able to say that about sex too. You should be proudly able to say, "Yeah I wouldn't have a clue about all that orgasm shit, ay. I'm okay at everything else but when it comes to that part I wouldn't have a clue. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#humor #sex #humor

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end to divine things. ↗

— Hippocrates

#religion #science #skepticism #men

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it. ↗

— David Attenborough

#nature #science #nature

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#poverty #rights #science #science

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't. ↗

— Ian Stewart

#science #science

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself. ↗

— Lee Smolin

#cosmology #metaphysics #physics #science #theology

Its not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#strength #empowerment

Hope,... which whispered from Pandora's box after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion... It's a law of motion, a fact of physics..., no different from the stages of white dwarves and red giants. Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yardstick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years. ↗

— Ian Caldwell

#time #science