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“Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.”
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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
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“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.”
― Hocus Pocus
― Hocus Pocus
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