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• It’s important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being.…

  Toni Morrison

• A Pastafarian Prayer Our Farfalle, Who art in Marinara, Hallowed be Thy Noodle. Thy Rigatoni come. Thy Penne be done, In bolognese as it is in Marinara. Give us this day our daily pasta. And forgive us our use of jarred sauces, as we…

  Stephen John

• In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate. If during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate with just two people, we are indeed very…

  Gene Roddenberry

• Thinking is disbelieving

  Bill Maher

• The most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any natural object, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his…

  Henry David Thoreau

• Solitude… is what sustains me and protects me from my mind. It renders me fully present. I am desert. I am mountains. I am Great Salt Lake. There are other languages being spoken by wind, water, and wings. There are other lives to consider:…

  Terry Tempest Williams

• Solitude, a simple den, A piece of paper and a pen, A cup of tea, a piece of toast. A window and the holy ghost. Some calm, a table and a chair; The mind is free, the soul is bare. There's love to make and life to hold. The ancient tiny thread…

  Michael Leunig

• Here lies the paradox of solitude. Look long and hard enough at yourself in isolation and suddenly you will see the rest of humanity staring back. Sustained aloneness brings you to a tipping point where the pendulum of life returns you to others.

  Stephen Batchelor

• Tackle small problems first, so that if success smiles and strength increases one may then undertake the great feats of investigation.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

• No one would deny the fact that he who knows and acts is the one who counts, not he who knows and falls asleep. We render a tribute of respect to those who add original work to a library, and withhold it from those who carry a library around in…

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

• The dreamers who are reminiscent of the conversationalists of old might be seen as a variety of megalomaniac. They are easily distinguished by their effervescence and by a profusion of ideas and plans of attack. Their optimistic eyes see everything…

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

• We should move towards shared prosperity of all biological life on Earth. Humans have irreparably damaged the Earth, but each of us born deserves to have food, shelter, education, and medicine. Profit-centered cultures will always converge on ideas…

  Daniel Fockler

• Come from the forest and sit 'round the fire Come from the fields and enter our hall Come drink from the guest-cup, come join in the circle Come and be welcome, ye Bards, one and all

  Emer nic Aidan

• Insist on your self; never imitate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• A single system (mind) produces all aspects of behavior. It is one mind that minds them all. Even if a mind has parts, modules, components, or whatever, they all mesh together to produce behavior. Any bit of behavior has causal tendrils that…

  Allen Newell

• An EV is a rolling computer in a fancy case with a squishy person inside of it.

  Cory Doctorow

• Everything is free now That's what they say Everything I ever done Gonna give it away Someone hit the big score They figured it out That we're gonna do it anyway Even if it doesn't pay

  Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

• The only way to rectify our reasonings is to make them as tangible as those of the Mathematicians, so that we can find our error at a glance, and when there are disputes among persons, we can simply say: Let us calculate, without further ado, to see…

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

• We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable – but then so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

  Ursula K le Guin

• In this age of the Anthropocene, as H. sapiens puts its heavy and indelible stamp on every last corner of the globe, humanity must continue to evolve, in outlook most of all. All peoples must learn to accept what science clearly shows: that ours is…

  Alexander Wirth