“bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.”
― The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
― The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
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“What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.”
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“Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
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