Repeat after me:


there is no such thing


as mind control.

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Master: “May the wind always be behind your back. “

Student: “What, and fuck up my hair?”

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“The major philosophical problem with the block-Universe interpretation of four-dimensional spacetime is that it appears to be fatalism disguised as physics. It seems to be a mathematician’s proof of determinism and a denial of free will dressed up in geometry.”

– Paul J. Nahin, from Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction

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Perspectives on Percentages

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
– Lou Holtz, American football coach

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
– Woody Allen

“Ninety percent of everything is crap.”
– Theodore Sturgeon, fiction writer

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
– Thomas Edison

“Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.”
– Buckminster Fuller

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“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

– attributed to Mark Twain
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“If you’re looking for a deeper meaning, I’m as deep as this high ceiling”

– Lou Reed, Images
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“Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful.”


– Timothy Findley, writer
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“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. “

– Bertrand Russell
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“I like to fare forth fresh, if only for the alliteration.”

– Peter De Vries, Slouching Towards Kalamazoo

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