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"The scene about the horse midway through the book traumatized me. Cheryl seems incapable of making good decisions about her life or that of her animals, and this part was truly awful, unintentional or not. I should have looked up content warnings ahead of time." — Apr 17, 2026 11:42AM
"The scene about the horse midway through the book traumatized me. Cheryl seems incapable of making good decisions about her life or that of her animals, and this part was truly awful, unintentional or not. I should have looked up content warnings ahead of time." — Apr 17, 2026 11:42AM
Making use of Newton’s laws of motion, Laplace showed how by knowing the positions and velocities of a set of objects in space, as well as their mutual forces, one might predict their motions indefinitely forward in time. Presuming that
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“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
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“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”
― The Prophet
― The Prophet
“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light‐years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
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