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"Bestowing a word of promise here and a smile there, a whisper on one happy slave and a wave of the hand on another, Monseigneur affably passed through his rooms to the remote region of the Circumference of Truth. There, Monseigneur turned, and came back again, and so in due course of time got himself shut up in his sanctuary by the chocolate sprites, and was seen no more." — Apr 26, 2025 11:12AM
"Bestowing a word of promise here and a smile there, a whisper on one happy slave and a wave of the hand on another, Monseigneur affably passed through his rooms to the remote region of the Circumference of Truth. There, Monseigneur turned, and came back again, and so in due course of time got himself shut up in his sanctuary by the chocolate sprites, and was seen no more." — Apr 26, 2025 11:12AM
Xavier said:
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I reckon he never went abroad.Ain't no knowledge in this, only instink.
You could listen these fantastical stories over and over again, and they still don't make no sense. ...more "
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"There’s another trouble about theories: there’s always a hole in them somewheres, sure, if you look close enough." — Apr 25, 2025 09:02AM
"There’s another trouble about theories: there’s always a hole in them somewheres, sure, if you look close enough." — Apr 25, 2025 09:02AM
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"t demands a great effort to clear our minds of these familiar conceptions which, it is plain are nothing but naïve realism. Yes! the mechanical conception of the universe is nothing but naïve realism." — Feb 21, 2025 08:24AM
"t demands a great effort to clear our minds of these familiar conceptions which, it is plain are nothing but naïve realism. Yes! the mechanical conception of the universe is nothing but naïve realism." — Feb 21, 2025 08:24AM
“Around 500 BCE, in what the philosopher Karl Jaspers called the Axial Age, several widely separated cultures pivoted from systems of ritual and sacrifice that merely warded off misfortune to systems of philosophical and religious belief that promoted selflessness and promised spiritual transcendence.”
― Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
― Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
“You are a babbling fool, and we have built a temple to madness.”
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“On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died”
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“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.”
― The Emperor's Handbook
― The Emperor's Handbook
“She looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression.”
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