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The crisis of European jurisprudence began a century ago with the victory of legal positivism.

Norms are valid only for normal situations.

One might think that someone as smart as Buckley would have the good sense to shut up, but good sense is not something Bill Buckley had in great supply when he entered the army.

that coolness is a social category, not a natural attribute (with the possible exception of Keith Richards)

The extra clutter adds no important insight; instead, it offers more clutter in which erros can lurk.

Poverty may be powerful enough to swamp the influence of variants in our DNA.

Unrequited love sucks. It should be against the law." She brightened. "If it was, then I could have Rick arrest me. I'd love to be handcuffed to him.

The person of interest in her sister's murder had become the cowboy of her heart

Oh, dear, she thought, this is probably more democracy than an Englishman can stand.

yacht club. She wore a pumpkin-colored jacket and had long brown

Trying to divine some essential truth about evil is toxic, like inhaling fumes.

Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers

The Second law of human stupidity: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person

He consequently long declined any proposal to have it translated.

Any description of a system is therefore always a description of the information a system has about another system, that is to say, the correlation between the two systems.

Abstract thought can anticipate by centuries hypotheses that find a use—or confirmation—in scientific inquiry.

It is with sadness that every so often I spend a few hours on the internet, reading or listening to the mountain of stupidity dressed up with the word "quantum.

the spatiotemporal entity of Einstein.

The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, or Principia, the book that founded modern science.

Myths nourish science, and science nourishes myth. But the value of knowledge remains.

Thinking of the world as a collection of events, of processes, is the way that allows us to better grasp, comprehend, and describe it.

due to which the value of one variable implies something about the value of the other.68 This is the meaning of the word "information" that I am using here.

Any description of a system is therefore always a description of the information a system has about another system, that is to say, the correlation between the two systems. The

the obscurity of the theory is not the fault of quantum mechanics but is rather due to the limited capacity of our imagination.