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- Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
- Joseph Priestley
- What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
- Joseph Priestley
- I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- ...free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.
- Tamora Pierce, Alanna The First Adventure
- He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
- The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.
- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797), Letter to Sir David Dalrymple, 1770
- If you do a good job for others,
you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
- So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.
- Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), The Shifting Realities of Phillip K. Dick
- Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
- John Lennon (1940 - 1980), Strawberry Fields
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