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“I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of man. It is not a property of the universe. Rationality may be a useful tool when it suits our purposes, however, it is merely a measuring stick, calibrated against what we know of the nature of the universe - all of which may or may not be completely inaccurate.”

Knows Men Life Mind May Purpose Universe Too Much Illusion Concepts Tools Property Sticks Devotion Suits Radical Rationality Constructs Measuring

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on other planets and far stars, forms that would seem bizarre to humans, as human life is bizarre to other life-forms.”

Life Humans Seems Earth Form Life Is Stars Human Beings Planets Shapes Unique Property Human Life Bizarre

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living; but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud.”

Life Wisdom Blood Moon Glory Property Clouds Stains

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life claim to be non-doms and live here, it is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax.”

People Life Parent Born Company Taxes Fairs Claims Property Inheritance Not Fair Later In Life Offshore Doms Inheritance Tax

Author:George Osborne

“People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.”

People Life Writing Real Form Speak Differences Building Drama Scene Property Series Drawing Real Life Dialogue Narrative Dramatic Composer Reporters Lit Cinematographers

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.”

Life Science Certain Universe Property Atoms Carbon Exceptional

Author:James Jeans

“Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.”

Ifs Life Persons Nature Violence Gun Property Surrender Resistance Gun Control Preservation Limbs Compact Never Surrender

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations