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“There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.”

Enough Certain Fall Black Attention Serious Claims Illness Critical Holes Black Hole Unlucky Radius Solipsism Serious Illness

Book:The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an exception has been made.”

Ifs May Doe Has Beens Made War Christian Cases Violence Serious Negative Tradition Claims Prepared Exception Affirmation Justified Presumption Being Equal Unjustified

Author:John Howard

“Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis. The survey of AMS meteorologists, however, shows no such overwhelming majority exists. Indeed, to the extent we can assign a majority scientific opinion to whether all the necessary components of a global warming crisis exist, the AMS survey shows the majority does not agree humans are creating a global warming crisis.”

Humans Doe Shows Opinion Serious Creating Concern Scientist Claims Crisis Agree Majority Global Warming Activist Overwhelming Components Surveys Meteorologists

Author:James Taylor

“Those who actually do have a valid claim to such special competence have a particular obligation to make very clear to the general public the limits of what is understood at any serious level; these limits are typically very narrow in matters of significance in human affairs.”

Humans Matter Levels Clear Special Particular Serious Limits Understood Claims Affair Obligation Significance Competence General Public

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.”

Writing Persons Serious Claims Profundity Serious Person

Author:Khushwant Singh

“The most hurtful thing to me is when people try to put assumptions on me and my relationship because that is not OK. Love is something that's really serious and private that you can't try to claim or know.”

People Knows Trying Love Is Serious Claims Assumption Hurtful Hurtful Things

Author:Gigi Hadid