“It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn’t thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It’s a safety place.” — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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“Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.” — Bertrand Russell, The Scientific Outlook
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“When the state murders, it assumes an authority I refuse to concede: the authority of perfect knowledge in final things.” — John Leonard, Private Lives in the Imperial City
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“Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.” — James Russell Lowell, A Few Bits of Roman Mosaic
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“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it’s our job to invent something better.” — Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
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