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• With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album of original, esoteric compositions marked by dense polyrhythms, dissonant, angular lines and an organic logic that ties the whole thing together in brilliant fashion.

  Bill Milkowski

  Fashion, New York, Cds

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• Even though most people who reject Christianity treat it as a refuge for enemies of reason, the truth is that there may be no worldview in the history of the human race that has a higher regard for the laws of logic.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Race, Law, People

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• When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

  Alan Alda

  School, Thinking, Lasts

  "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?". www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2014.

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• Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

  Otto Weininger

  Ethics, Duty, Oneself

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.159, Рипол Классик

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• Please don't confuse love and logic ... They aren't even remotely related.

  Shannon Lee

  Please, Related

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• I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.

  Gore Verbinski

  Thinking, Facts, Horror

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned.

  Osamu Dazai

  Powerful, Sea, Water

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.67, New Directions Publishing

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• The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country.

  Steven Biko

  Country, Men, White

  "I Write What I Like (We Blacks)". Book by Steven Biko, 1978.

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• The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Men, Geography And History, Fabric

  "Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine".

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• Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Believe, If There Is A God

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• ...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

  James Woods

  Simple, Politics, Want

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• Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Character, Law, Fit

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• All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Political, Presidential

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• After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Complicated, Should

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1991). “Cancer Ward: A Novel”, p.96, Macmillan

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• The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stones, Way, Sun

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

  Agatha Christie

  Method, Accomplish

  Poirot Investigates "The Kidnapped Prime Minister" (1924)

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• I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.

  Gaetano Pesce

  Real, Needs, Fit

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• As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Powerful, Law, Judging

  "The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1906.

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• The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Lasts, Madness, Madmen

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• The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Taste, Firsts

  "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson". Book by Thomas Jefferson, p. 30, 1904.

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• In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Thinking, Ideas

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.39, Indiana University Press

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• Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

  Gloria Steinem

  Oppression

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.1066, Open Road Media

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• What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

  Romare Bearden

  Art, World, Validity

  Romare Bearden (1968). “Romare Bearden: Paintings and Projections”

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• In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Miracle, Sides, Kind

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• Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Destiny, Each Day, Relentless

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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