February 2011
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WatchTumblr in Egypt
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“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.”
– Rumi
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“The Koran! well, come put me to the test
Lovely old book in hideous error drest...”
– Omar Khayyam
January 2011
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“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well,...”
– George Orwell
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“A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important...”
– Robert M. Hutchins
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“To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven,...”
– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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“If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities,...”
– Erica Jong
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“Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.”
– Bertrand Russell
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“Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in...”
– Baron d’Holbach
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“Silence may be a much more interesting way of having a relationship with...”
– Michel Foucault
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“I would like and I hope I’ll die of an overdose of pleasure of any...”
– Michel Foucault
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“He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
He who kisses the...”
– Eternity by William Blake (1757-1827)
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“Women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery.”
– Gao Xingjian
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“Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is morally...”
– Thomas S. Szasz
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“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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Recursion:(n)
See Recursion.
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“I see no reason to insult me, sir. I believe I’ve been completely logical...”
– Spock
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Kurt Godel: Logician who became insane
Kurt Gödel, arguably one of the greatest logicians of all time and the first to prove incompleteness formally, turned insane later in his life. “Gödel suffered periods of mental instability and illness. He had an obsessive fear of being poisoned; he would only eat food his wife, Adele, prepared for him. Late in 1977, Adele was hospitalized for six months and could not make Gödel’s food...
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“Poverty is what I’m writing about.”
– George Orwell
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“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is...”
– George Orwell
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“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be...”
– George Orwell
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“There’s two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then...”
– Enrico Fermi
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“Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”
– Enrico Fermi