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We were also alternately inspired by and jealous of P.E.'s "It Takes a Nation of Millions," which Yauch played on the boomin' system in his Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham D'elegance, because it made us question whether what we were making was even worthwhile. "Damn, they did it! We will never make anything this good.

In philosophy we must always resist the temptation of hitting on an answer to the question how we can define such-and-such a notion, an answer which supplies a smooth and elegant definition which entirely ignores the purpose which we originially wanted the notion for.

In philosophy we must always resist the temptation of hitting on an answer to the question how we can define such-and-such a notion, an answer which supplies a smooth and elegant definition which entirely ignores the purpose which we originally wanted the notion for.

Bohr: You never cared what got destroyed on the way, though. As long as the mathematics worked out you were satisfied. Heisenberg: If something works it works. Bohr: But the question is always, What does the mathematics mean, in plain language? What are the philosophical implications?" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

in this book I want to address a question that I think is commonly in the minds of Christian people when they read the Acts of the Apostles: what can we learn from these people who turned the world upside down in so short a space of time?

The relation of science to metaphysics and theology is not fundamentally a scientific question, nor is it fundamentally an empirical, historical, sociological, or even philosophical question, though of course it is all of these. Rather it is fundamentally a theological question, logically consequent upon the question of the relation between God and the world.

The basic principle that should guide economic policy is recognition that debts which can't be paid, won't be. The great political question is, how won't they be paid?

What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?

Is it any wonder that no cure for cancer has ever been revealed?

Is she dead?" called Zenda. Sort of," I shouted, "And the pizza's completely fucked too.

Our purpose is not to be the answer, but rather the question. To make each day a little brighter and leave the world a better place than we found it. That is the true path, which we all must choose to follow, regardless of whether it leads us beneath the shadow of a heel or the tire of a car. Our purpose is to walk that path with our heads held high, hope in our hearts, and belief that our roles, no matter how small, are integral to the grand design.

Somehow along my path, I devised a second way of divining God's will for me, which I'm sure isn't original. When I'm not certain what God would have me do, I reframe the question to, "what would love do?" Intellectually, equating God and love seems fair, and it has never led me astray or failed to translate.

What sin has plagued me with this curse?

I know the answer now, but I'm so frightened I've forgotten the question.

The jigsaw puzzles have so many missing pieces, we play a game called What the Fuck Is That.

Niten drew in a deep shuddering breath and the air was suffused with the delicate odor of green tea. "And Tsagaglalal . . ." "Yes, Father?" Prometheus closed his eyes. "Tell Niten to find Aoife and ask her the question. Tell him . . . tell him she will say yes.

In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that enormous, unanswerable question.

In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that last enormous, unanswerable question.

Death opens up the question of Being ... It is the shrine of Nothing and the shelter of Being.

The real question, of course, was how Bannon, the fuck-the-system populist, had ever come to think that he might get along with Donald Trump, the use-the-system-to-his-own-advantage billionaire

Yes, seven years old she was, when she finally plucked up the courage to ask her mother what Christmas was all about, and Mrs Castaway replied (once only, after which the subject was forever forbidden): 'It's the day Jesus Christ died for our sins. Evidently unsuccessfully, since we're still paying for them.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

De fait, se demandait-il, comment une société pourrait-elle subsister sans religion? Déjà, dans le cas d'un individu, ça paraissait difficile. Pendant plusieurs jours, il contempla le radiateur situé à gauche de son lit. En saison les cannelures se remplissaient d'eau chaude, c'était un mécanisme utile et ingénieux; mais combien de temps la société occidentale pourrait-elle subsister sans une religion quelconque?

Quand viendra la mort ?