If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Listen, to appeal to someone else you might put on a pair of shoes that you don't like or a dress you don't like. But there's no way you're going to put on a perfume you don't like; it's too personal.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

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To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

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Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

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I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on" Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump.

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Jenny Holzer

Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.

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There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to perfection. Or maybe it's just that I've lived inside of my head more than any other person in the history of the world. Maybe none of us can really predict how we will act at any give moment. Maybe we're all at the mercy of circumstance in spite of our well-laid plans.

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The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.

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