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Music makes one feel so romantic at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
Golf is like a love affair: if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun. If you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want.
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
…information can be treated like any other quantity and be subjected to the manipulation of a machine.
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
No, this trick won't work…How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?
RAM: This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest memory. That's important, because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages.
