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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

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William Irwin Thompson
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Category: Science

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. In the television age the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
  • 2. Photography suits the temper of this age – of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas imagery for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting for one who sees quickly and acts decisively accurately.
  • 3. Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I know no subject more elevating more amazing more ready to the poetical enthusiasm the philosophical reflection and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety such beauty such magnificence?
  • 2. Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and as one of the world's most powerful brands touches millions of lives every day.
  • 3. I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

3 Anger

  • 1. Fear is the only true enemy born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
  • 2. And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.
  • 3. It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up turn on the TV and watch the parade so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear though to stay warm!
  • 2. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
  • 3. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
  • 2. In fact it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
  • 3. I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
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