Quotes
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The noble lie
‘God has created three kinds of men, made respectively of gold: the rulers, silver: the soldiers, and base metals: the common man .‘― Plato
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Platonic Misogeny
‘Those of the men first created who led a life of cowardice and injustice were suitably reborn as women in the second generation, and this is why it was at this particular juncture that the gods contrived the lust for copulation.‘― Plato
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The Mystique of Mathematical Formulae
‘One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers, that we get more out of them than was originally put into them.‘― Heinrich Herz
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Snobbery
‘That Plato’s republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.‘― Bertrand Russell
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Powershell or Nickel & Dimed
‘Your choice is Learn Powershell, or Would you like fries with that ?‘― Don Gannon-Jones
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Here, There and Everywhere
‘Why should I go anywhere when I am already there ?‘― Brahmin Ladies
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A Rigid System
‘What happened in this country was that a rigid system was created, and then life was hearded into it.‘― Mikhail Gorbachev
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Apes on a Treadmill
‘It may be that we are jogging in tandem on a treadmill to nowhere.‘― Paul Warnke
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Charles Lauritsen on Oppenheimer
‘This man was unbelievable. He always gave you the answer before you had time to formulate the question.‘― Charles Lauritsen
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