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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
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Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.


Spalding Gray
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Jeff Bezos
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
Indira Gandhi
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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
C. S. Lewis
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Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.
Geoff Mulgan
We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one.
Edmond H. Fischer
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.
Louis Dudek
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The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
Marilynne Robinson
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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.


Menander
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
James D. Watson
There are many forms of writing that are common, but also very formulaic, such as annual reports or economic studies. In those areas, people would probably be relieved not to have to write those kinds of things because they are mundane and drudgery.
Philip M. Parker
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Pearl S. Buck
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In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.


Nelson Eddy
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What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.


Robert Fripp
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. Heinlein
Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.
Siobhan Davies
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The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.


Arthur C. Clarke
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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da Vinci
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
Oliver Evans