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“Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.”

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Jack Black

Jack Black, born on August 28, 1969, is an accomplished actor from the United States. Known for his unique comedic style and acting prowess, he has made a name for himself in Hollywood with films such as 'School of Rock' and 'Nacho Libre'. more

“It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.”

Kind May Littles Stills Matter Pain Existence Broken Arms Anxiety Meaningless Agony Angst Phenomenal Withdrawal Smack

Book:Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade

Source: Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade

“Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as "employee satisfaction results" - might improve.”

Should Might Results Type Management Workers Satisfaction Employee Boss Sanctions Repose Naps

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.”

People Made Extraordinary Made It Plutonium

Book:The Social Construction of What?

Source: The Social Construction of What?

“Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands in your pockets and your head on a pillow and would work no more. In science rest is stagnation, rest is death.”

Ifs Problem Hands Would Be Terrible Pockets Pillow Stagnation

Author:Max Planck

“Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing stock of knowledge exceeds the range available to any one individual.”

Individual Social Process Results Particular Activity Available Range Theoretical Exceed Cognition

Author:Ludwik Fleck

“There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.”

Men Fit Employment Pens Suspicion Ink Escaping Gloomy Grown Man

Book:The Cream of the Jest

Source: The Cream of the Jest

“Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.”

People Mean Ends Philosophy Happens Certain Values Interest Accepting Particular Normal Relation Institutions Usual Noticing

Author:Georges Canguilhem

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