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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#had #hand #i #know #make

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#i #make #mercy #possible #severe

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

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#irrelevant #meaning #morality #motivation #myths

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#history #human #human history #nonlinear #unpredictable

No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#certain #denotes #discovery #evolution #evolved

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#ago #atoms #body #born #brain

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

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#deny #experience #had #i #i do

In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension. ↗

— Charles Scott Sherrington

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