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The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.

Whether morality is moral is an open question.

The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.

Epictetus

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These views were voiced by the school of 'optessimists', i.e. philosophers who derived optimism for the future from a pessimistic appraisal of the present." The 21st Voyage, The Star Diaries

Stanisław Lem

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Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

Shannon L. Alder

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It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, Therem. Both and one. A shadow on snow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

Amit Kalantri

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