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Reality itself is whatever we contend with when we are striving to survive and reproduce. A lot of that is other beings, their opinions of us, and their communities. And that's that.

If you are disciplined and privilege the future over the present you can change the structure of reality in your favour.

is the case that forced redistribution, in the name of utopian equality, is a cure to shame the disease.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a mortality rate of 100%.

Psychotherapy is genuine conversation. Genuine conversation is exploration, articulation and strategizing. When you're involved in a genuine conversation, you're listening, and talking—but mostly listening.

Describí cómo había llegado a la conclusión de que los elementos que constituían el mundo como una obra de teatro eran el orden y el caos, y no elementos materiales.

How do we establish a balance between reasonable conservatism and revitalizing creativity?

Adam," calls God, apparently forgetting that He can see through bushes,

It is also by no means self-evident that value, subjective though it appears to be, is not an integral part of reality, despite the undeniable utility of the scientific method.

I did my best not to smirk. It blows my "Don't mind me, I never notice anything," smokescreen when I give in to smirkiness.

if we now feel comfortable rejecting the conclusions of the Witztum study, what does that say about the reliability of our standard statistical tests?

the crazy theory is designed to survive this winnowing process. That's how conspiracy theories work.

Risky strategies can be analyzed numerically; uncertain strategies, Ellsberg suggested, were beyond the bounds of formal mathematical analysis

Steven, I know I phrased that as a question, but it was really a command. Yes, but mine is…ummm…private. Private, Steven? Yes, Miss Palma. PRIVATE Steven? Again with the capital letters?

He also said that if anyone did anything to mess up the rest of the testing, he was going to call 911 personally. Yeah, like that wouldn't make it into the nightly news again: WHEELCHAIR-BOUND CANCER PATIENT ARRESTED FOR FREE SPEECH.

I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!

this is mathematical speculation by a bunch of overcaffeinated theorists.

this is more in the category of late-night herb-inspired speculation than actual scientific prediction.

love / is turning out the lights when others do, a curfew we / would take / for sails.

But that which remains for ever incomprehensible is the initial horror, the horror imposed on each of us, of having to live, and that is a mystery no philosophy can explain.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world.

The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.

Fue siempre Madrid predilecta y víctima de la burocracia.

Nou? zecimi din ce i se atribuie sexualit??ii constituie opera magnificei noastre puteri de a imagina,care nici nu mai este instinct,ci dimpotriv?:o crea?ie