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Edgar Allan Poe
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
Edgar Allan Poe
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Tom Robbins
"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being."
Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)
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William Blake
"A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent."
William Blake
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"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
— William James, brother of Henry James
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Lewis Carroll
"...if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)
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Albert Camus
"There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined."
Albert Camus
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Douglas Adams
"Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does."
Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1-5)
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""How do you feel right now?"
"I hurt like hell."
"You'll feel worse tomorrow."
"So?"
"So, better get a jump on this while you still feel...not as bad."
"What kind of logic is that?" I retorted

♥(Rose & Dimitri)♥
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— Richelle Mead : Vampire Academy 1
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C.S. Lewis
"[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not."
C.S. Lewis
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C.S. Lewis
"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."
C.S. Lewis
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Albert Camus
"It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end."
Albert Camus
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Douglas Adams
"The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit."
Douglas Adams (The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul)
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Rabindranath Tagore
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."
Rabindranath Tagore
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"What truly is logic? Who decides reason? [...] It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found."
John Nash
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George Gordon Byron
"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."
George Gordon Byron
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George Carlin
"It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes."
George Carlin (Brain Droppings)
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René Descartes
"When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable."
René Descartes
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George Orwell
"For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?"
George Orwell
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Brigid Lowry
"Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn't and that is exactly why we do."
Brigid Lowry (Guitar Highway Rose)
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"ANTI-TWILIGT!
COME TO THE DARK SIDE...WE HAVE LOGIC!!!"
— ME
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Agatha Christie
"The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances."
Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express)
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Agatha Christie
"Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go."
Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)
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Gene Roddenberry
"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."
Gene Roddenberry
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"I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain."
— Rene Descartes
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Samuel Butler
"Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it."
Samuel Butler
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René Descartes
"I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright."
René Descartes (Meditationes de Prima Philosophia (Meditations on First Philosophy) [LATIN])
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Charles Dickens
"[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads."
Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend)
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"There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem."
Michael Kurland
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Sting
"Takes more than combat gear to make a man
Takes more than a license for a gun
Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
A gentleman will walk but never run
"
Sting
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"Different Isn't Wrong"
— D.J. Scheuer
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Frank Herbert
"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."
Frank Herbert (Dune)
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Jean-Paul Sartre
"One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Scarlett Thomas
"I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.""
Scarlett Thomas (The End of Mr. Y)
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Peter Kreeft
"We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well."
Peter Kreeft (Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics)
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Peter Kreeft
"An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - probably more. The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.""
Peter Kreeft (Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics)
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Jean-Paul Sartre
"One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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René Descartes
"I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain."
René Descartes
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"Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties."
Jamie Whyte (Crimes Against Logic)
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"...you will quickly wander off into logical oblivion."
— Ronald Wilcox
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Agatha Christie
"The impossible canmot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances."
Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express)
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