August 2011
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“One who has crossed over the mire,
crushed the thorn of sensuality,
reached...”
– Udana 3.22
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“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is...”
– Immanuel Kant
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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“There is no other species on the Earth that does science. It is, so far,...”
– Carl Sagan
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“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
– Albert Einstein in “My Future Plans”
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“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“I would request, that my body in death, be buried not cremated, so that the...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson on dying
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“Think not lightly of good, saying, “It will not come to me.”
Drop...”
– Dhammapada 9.122
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“Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.”
– Immanuel Kant
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“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have...”
– Carl Sagan in Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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“Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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Question of the Day?
What well known figure has most influenced you to take an interest in science and reason? What about this person had this affect on you?
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“Anything you don’t understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for...”
– Carl Sagan in “Contact”
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“Irrigators direct the water,
Fletchers fashion the shaft,
Carpenters bend the...”
– Dhammapada 6.80
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“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a...”
– Immanuel Kant
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“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist...”
– Carl Sagan
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“If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is...”
– Albert Einstein
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“A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“God must love the common man, he made so many of them.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world....”
– Kevin Spacey
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“This is to be done by one skilled in aims
who wants to break through to the...”
– Sutta Nipāta 1.143, 1.144, 1.145
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“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may...”
– Immanuel Kant
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“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such...”
– Carl Sagan in Contact
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“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“Mind precedes all things;
mind is their chief, mind is their maker.
If one...”
– Dhammapada 1.2
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“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that...”
– Immanuel Kant
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“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind...”
– Carl Sagan
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“Generosity, kind words,
doing a good turn for others,
and treating all people...”
– Jataka 20