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A MORE REALISTIC VIEW OF ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INDICATORS If one of America’s goals is to rid itself of racism and institutional discrimination, then we should welcome the finding that a Latino and white of similar
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“Things were launching themselves from the ornate sunburst spires, glittering leech shapes made of shifting planes of light. There were hundreds of them, rising in a whirl, their movements random as windblown paper down dawn streets. “Glitch systems,” the voice said.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“clumsy charlatan like Hegel is confidently branded as such? German philosophy is precisely so, laden with contempt, mocked abroad, rejected by honest sciences – like a strumpet who, for filthy lucre, yesterday gave herself up to one, today to another; and the minds of the contemporary generation of scholars are jumbled by Hegelian nonsense: incapable of thought, coarse and stupefied, they become the prey of the vulgar materialism that has crept out of the Basilisk's egg”
― Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings: 4
― Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings: 4
“The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.”
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“Ulpian, a jurist (d. ca. 229 CE), explained the basic principles of Roman law this way: “The rules of law are to live honestly, to harm no person, and to give to each his due.”
― A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500
― A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500
“Dedication To all my enemies: I could not have done it without you.”
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
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