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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.


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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.


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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.


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The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.


Cotton Mather
Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
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One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.


Charlie Trotter
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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.


Charles Simic
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The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
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I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
Robert Moog
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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We should have more invention.


Nathan Myhrvold
I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.
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All art is quite useless.


Oscar Wilde
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The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.
William Shockley
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.
Ellen Burstyn