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“Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.

[Blog post, March 12, 2012]”
― Jim C. Hines

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”
― C.S. Lewis

“No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.”
― Isaac Asimov

“The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposite halves.”
― C.G. Jung, Aion

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: God’s revelation is given to something called a loving heart.”
― Seraphim Rose, God's Revelation to the Human Heart

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.”
― James Thurber

“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus.”
― Turkish proverb