“Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?”
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“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
― More Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol 2
― More Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol 2
“The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein—it rejects it.” —P. B. Medawar”
― The Unfair Advantage: Sell with NLP!
― The Unfair Advantage: Sell with NLP!
“I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.”
― Days of Blood & Starlight
― Days of Blood & Starlight
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
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