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Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. Frank Herbert, Dune.
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Q: How many members of the U.S.S. Enterprise does it take to change a light bulb? A: Seven. Scotty has to report to Captain Kirk that the light bulb in the Engineering Section is getting dim, at which...
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The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of...
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Rom: Hello, Leeta. Bye. [leaves] Leeta: I must be doing something wrong. Quark: I don’t know, Leeta. Maybe he’s just not interested in you. Leeta: Well, I know he likes me. Quark: Likes you, yes. But...
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So now, I have one last thought, which is that it really makes a difference what we say – the words that come out of our mouth. I learned this from a woman who survived Auschwitz, one of the rare...
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In all major socializing forces you will find an underlying movement to gain and maintain power through the use of words. From witch doctor to priest to bureaucrat it is all the same. A governed...
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All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I’m gone Flowers gathered in the morning, Afternoon they blossom on, Still are withered...
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Dear Mary Daisy Dinkle, [...] Here is a list of what I eat on the other nights. Mondays – Glicks Potato Knish, Tuesdays – Yiddels Noodle Kugel, Wednesdays – Captain Salty’s Fishstix, Thursdays – Yentls...
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Contrary to what’s been written in some quarters, Aaron Swartz didn’t attempt to download those journal articles because “information wants to be free.” No one cares what information wants. He was...
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We talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks...
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