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The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.

What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

To explain too much is to steal a person's opportunity to learn, and stealing is against the Law.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.

When we dance we touch the essence of who we are and experience the unity between spirit and matter.

It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering

Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence.

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.

People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

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