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The Odyssey

by Homer

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“Thus with the wisest of you all; you are ever unfixed.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

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“We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.”
― Arne Tiselius

tags: biochemist, biochemistry, blurred, critical-thinking, error, exploitation, facts, false, language, manipulation, manipulation-of-facts, nobel-laureate, pollution, science, superstition, truth, uncritical-minds, world

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“Feminists in Greenwich Village had begun bobbing their hair in 1912. In 1915, it was still radical. “The idea, it seems, came from Russia,” the New York Times reported. “The intellectual women of that country were revolutionaries. For convenience in disguising themselves when the police trailed them, they cropped their hair.”2 Holloway was something of a revolutionary, too.”
― Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman

tags: politics

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“Memories, as my father once said, are porcupines. To hell with them! Stay away from them! They make you unhappy. They ruin your work. They make you cry”
― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

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“Facets, Matthew. Each facet catches the light in its own way. It glints and sparkles and flashes uniquely. It would almost be possible to believe that the facet was the jewel; not just a tiny part of it. But, then, as we move the jewel another facet catches the light."

"So? What's your point?"

"My point? I have no point, Matthew. Save for the jewel, and the facets, and the light. We see an aspect of the whole. But the facet is not the jewel....”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

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