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People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#get #groups #intelligence #into #inverse

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#attempt #believing #care #cosmology #cultural

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#always #different #difficult #growing #growing up

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#kids #know #universe

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. ↗

— Ben Hogan

#close #come #every #golf #having

The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South. ↗

— David F. Houston

#cold #during #especially #heavy #particular

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ↗

— Jean Houston

#height #into #kaleidoscope #laughter #new

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist. ↗

— Charles Stross

#cosmic-sadist #death #everything #life #religion

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. ↗

— Fred Hoyle

#i #know #plan #though #universe

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#man #pain #suffers