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"A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?"
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"Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership."
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"There is nothing wrong or right, only our thoughts make it so."
"I can resist everything but love."
"Opinion about religion might be different, but religion should be one and that is the well being of humanity."
"You may not be rich with money, Socrates was not, your life still has tremendous value."
"You are the center of your universe, without you nothing is there."
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"Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty."
"In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics."
"Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest."
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