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“I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in human evolution. We became too self aware; nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody’s nobody. I think the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.”
Rustin Cohle

W. Edwards Deming
“Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.”
W. Edwards Deming
tags: data

Flannery O'Connor
“What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.”
Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Michel Foucault
“Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else.”
FOUCAULT MICHEL, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

Jostein Gaarder
“Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl
tags: life

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