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Cicéron, De la République
“La liberté ne consiste pas à avoir un bon maître, mais à n’en point avoir.” Cicéron, De la République “Freedom is not about having a good master, but not having one.” — Cicero, The Republic «La libertad no consiste en tener un buen amo, sino en no tener ninguno». Cicerón, Sobre la República „Die…
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I suppose love is an act of courage
I suppose love is an act of courage. Agatha Christie’s Marple: The Secret of Chimneys- Miss Marple s05e02 (2010)
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It is not equal time the creationists want. … Don’t kid yourself. They want all the time there is.
It is not equal time the creationists want. … Don’t kid yourself. They want all the time there is. (…) Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary—an enormous universe ruled by chance and impersonal rules, empty and uncaring, ungraspable and vertiginous.…
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“They said that here it’s not where you come from that counts, it’s what you make of the life you’re given”
They do It with mirrors, Agatha Christie
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“A multitude is a better judge of many things than any individual”
– Politics by Aristotle Sommes-nous plus intelligents à plusieurs ?: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/les-rencontres-de-petrarque/sommes-nous-plus-intelligents-a-plusieurs-1352240
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Black hole
“You have to find out what you can’t know before you know you can’t, don’t you? (…) The point is people must think, people must go on thinking, they must try to extend the boundaries of knowledge and they don’t sometimes even know where to start. You don’t know where the boundaries are, do you?”…
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“I once calculated that I did about one thousand hours of work in the three years I was at Oxford-an average of an hour a day. I am not proud of this lack of work. I’m just describing my attitude at the time, shared by most of my fellow students”.
Stephen Hawking – A brief history of time by Errol Morris (film 1991)