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“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
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“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
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“The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge–a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.”
― The Anti-Christ
― The Anti-Christ
Philosophy
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What is Philosophy? Why is it important? How do you use it? This group looks at these questions and others: ethics, government, economics, skepticism, ...more
Mathematics Students
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This group is for people interested in mathematics at the college level. All are welcome. Professor and students never stop learning mathematics, henc ...more
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"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more
Complexity Explorer
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— last activity Sep 27, 2013 05:45PM
Book group for Complexity Explorer. Started in February 2013 to accompany "Introduction to Complexity" on-line course. ...more
Complex Adaptive Systems
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— last activity Jul 23, 2008 07:38AM
Discuss books and ideas on complex adaptive systems, networks, and evolutionary processes.
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