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Author	Quotation	Categories	Updated	Views	Rating
Clarke, Arthur C.	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.	science magic technology	2008-11-19 18:49	5	favourite
Benford, Gregory	Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.	magic science technology	2008-11-19 18:49	2	favourite
(unknown)	Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.	time death life	2008-11-19 18:32	0	favourite
Einstein, Albert	Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.	stupidity universe	2008-11-19 18:29	23	favourite
Landers, Ann	Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.	dog admiration	2008-11-19 18:25	9	favourite
(movie 'The Name of the Rose')	How peaceful life would be without love, how safe, how tranquil. And how dull.	love peace	2008-11-19 18:22	2	favourite
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Everyone hears only what he understands.	comprehension	2008-11-19 18:20	1	favourite
(movie 'Match Point')	Faith is the path of least resistance.	faith	2008-11-19 18:18	2	favourite
Ford, Gerald	A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything that you have.	freedom government	2008-11-19 18:16	0	favourite
(unknown)	The amount of noise generated by a change is inversely proportional to the complexity of the change.	change complexity	2008-11-19 18:14	2	favourite
(unknown)	Freedom is not 'choosing between black and white', but to avoid such predetermined choice.	freedom choice	2008-11-19 18:11	1	favourite
(unknown)	Theories are cheap; proof is precious.	theory proof	2008-11-19 18:11	1	favourite
(unknown)	Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.	silence	2008-11-19 18:10	2	favourite
Bohr, Niels	Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.	prediction future	2008-11-19 09:22	4	favourite
Camus, Albert	Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.	normal pretence low profile	2008-11-18 00:50	4	favourite
Socrates	As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.	wisdom nothing	2008-11-16 02:52	8	favourite
Socrates	By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man.	marriage philosophy	2008-11-16 02:51	13	favourite
Socrates	What you cannot enforce, do not command.	command management	2008-11-16 02:50	1	favourite
Plato	Necessity, who is the mother of invention.	necessity invention	2008-11-16 02:49	7
Plato	No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.	understanding law	2008-11-16 02:48	5	favourite
Plato	Pleasure is the bait of sin.	sin pleasure	2008-11-16 02:48	1	favourite
Clarke, Arthur C.	Few great men remain great when one gets up close to them.	admiration	2008-11-15 13:44	3	-
Clarke, Arthur C.	If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.	imagination possibility	2008-11-15 13:42	4	-
Clarke, Arthur C.	It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.	intelligence	2008-11-15 13:41	12	-
Clarke, Arthur C.	It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.	religion	2008-11-15 13:41	9	favourite
Clarke, Arthur C.	My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.	religion truth	2008-11-15 13:41	6	favourite
Clarke, Arthur C.	There is a hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags will not wave in a vacuum.	nationalism	2008-11-15 13:37	5	favourite
Clarke, Arthur C.	You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy a religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.	religion science	2008-11-15 13:35	3	favourite
Clarke, Arthur C.	A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.	faith truth	2008-11-15 13:08	2	favourite
Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880)	Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.	science poetry	2008-11-15 13:03	1	not favourite
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.	miracle	2008-11-05 21:01	27	favourite
Augustine, Saint	Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.	miracle nature	2008-11-05 20:42	31	favourite
Einstein, Albert	Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.	prejudice wisdom	2008-11-03 13:20	68	favourite
(unknown)	Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.	happiness philosophy	2008-11-03 13:20	53	favourite
(unknown)	Beauty is only a light switch away.	imagination beauty	2008-11-03 13:20	41	favourite
(movie 'Closer')	If you believe in love at first sight, you never stop looking.	love	2008-11-03 13:10	98	favourite
Hemingway, Ernest	But in modern war, you die like a dog for no good reason.		2008-08-29 09:00	53	favourite
Hemingway, Ernest	Never mistake motion for action.		2008-08-29 08:56	40	favourite
Hemingway, Ernest	Ernest Hemingway, when asked what was the most frightening thing he ever encountered, answered: "A blank sheet of paper."		2008-08-29 08:55	28	not favourite
Aristotle	There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.		2008-08-29 08:51	42	favourite
Aristotle	All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.		2008-08-29 08:51	43	favourite
Einstein, Albert	Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.		2008-08-27 19:32	43	favourite
Einstein, Albert	Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.		2008-08-27 19:32	39	favourite
Remarque, Erich Maria	Človeka oceníme až keď ho niet.		2008-08-27 19:19	43	favourite
Einstein, Albert	Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.		2008-08-21 22:15	42	favourite
Einstein, Albert	Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- unless it is an enemy.		2008-08-21 22:05	40	favourite
Einstein, Albert	If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.		2008-08-21 22:05	30	not favourite
Einstein, Albert	Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.		2008-08-21 22:05	30	not favourite
Einstein, Albert	The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.		2008-08-21 22:03	38	favourite
Einstein, Albert	The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.		2008-08-21 22:03	30	not favourite

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