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We all reach a point that is the limit of our understanding. When we stare over the precipice of uncertainty and into the dark unknown that we cannot explain with hard evidence, that is when we trade understanding for belief. At best, we make an educated guess. At worst, we make blind leaps of faith. ↗

— Ramsey Isler

#death #faith #fantasy #philosophy #death

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate. ↗

— Max Baucus

#democratic #institution #legislature #like #other

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#get #martyred #poetry #slaves #stopping

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#both #choice #democracy #feeling #give

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#devours #else #everything #frenzied #passion

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#artifice #artificial #artificial intelligence #intelligence #lacks

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it. ↗

— Shania Twain

#ashamed #come #embarrassed #experienced #i

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#any #but not without #days #food #go

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#everything #immortality #insatiable #lies #life

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#discovered #driving #everything #form #obliterated