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- Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world
- The Law of Thumb
- Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
- Scott Adams (1957 - )
- Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
- Daniel Burnham
- Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
- Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
- Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors--they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.
- Zambendorf, _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan
- I find the question "Why are we here?" typically human. I'd suggest "Are we here?" would be the more logical choice.
- Leonard Nimoy
- This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- [W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
- Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis", Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967), pp. 1203-1207.
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