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*Nothing is indescribable in words if you take the time and trouble.  If your present language framework is inadequate, then you must carefully create a larger one.  –Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites, Monkfish, Rhinebeck, 2005
*Nothing is indescribable in words if you take the time and trouble.  If your present language framework is inadequate, then you must carefully create a larger one.  –Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites, Monkfish, Rhinebeck, 2005
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*The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. –[[Richard Feynman|Richard P. Feynman]]
*The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. –[[Richard Feynman|Richard P. Feynman]]
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*Any Universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it.  –[[John Barrow]]
*Any Universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it.  –[[John Barrow]]
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*The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, fool-proof, shit detector.  –[[Ernest Hemingway]]
*The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, fool-proof, shit detector.  –[[Ernest Hemingway]]
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*A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.  –[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]
*A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.  –[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]
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*I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.  –[[Samuel Johnson]], lexicographer (1709-1784)
*I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.  –[[Samuel Johnson]], lexicographer (1709-1784)

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