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"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
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"Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion."
"There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She'd wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have conversations in front of other ordinary people. Unfortunately, to do that in front of ordinary people would only prove her insanity, and although Mandy was naA ve at times, she wasn't stupid."
"The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation."
"To object/protest (vandha), create difficulties (vachka), and wrong beliefs (agnan) " these three are the reasons the world's delusion remains. It is to eradicate just these three things that all the worldly scriptures have been created."
"My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional."
"You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion."
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out."
"As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her."
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
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"But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings."
"You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility."
"Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed-if they're here, I want to know about them."
"Whatever the reason we first mustered the _Apollo_ program, however mired it was in Cold War nationalism and the instruments of death, the inescapable recognition of the unity and fragility of the Earth is its clear and luminous dividend, the unexpected final gift of _Apollo_. What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival.Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again."
"When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good for humanity. And assuming that we survive long enough to use their inventions wisely, I believe the same will be said of the modern Thoths and Prometheuses who are today devisingcomputers and programs at the edge of machine intelligence."
"Everything not forbidden by the laws of nature, he assured her - quoting a colleague down the hall - is mandatory."
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
"For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness."
"She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope. She suddenly caught herself. "Misanthrope" is someone who dislikes everybody, not just men.And they certainly had a word for someone who hates women: "misogynist." But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word."
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