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• Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dream, Math, Wish

  Cool Memories Chapter 4

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• Logic will never change emotion or perception.

  Edward de Bono

  Perception, Emotion, Never Change

  "Edward de Bono: 'Iraq? They just need to think it through'". Interview with Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2007.

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• I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Math, Two, Giving

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• Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

  Ray Comfort

  Song, Nature, Believe

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• Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

  Rene Descartes

  Success, Witty, Humorous

  "Discourse on the Method". Book by Rene Descartes (Part 2), 1637.

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• I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Order, Ontology

  Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Duchamp (1997). “The complete works of Marcel Duchamp”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

  Garry Kasparov

  Responsibility, Play, Chess

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• Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Education, Truth, Freedom

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Steven R. Weisman (2010). “Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary”, p.2, PublicAffairs

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• The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Men, Reason

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• There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

  Charles Pierce

  Witty, Truth, Science

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• People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Practice

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• In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

  Thomas Sowell

  Money, Answers, Way

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• The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

  Stephen King

  Religious, Atheist, Religion

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• [The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Decay, Assumption

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• There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Passion, Boundaries

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.3, Vintage

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• After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.

  Richard Russo

  Heart, People, Desire

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• All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

  Douglas Adams

  Opinion, Argument, Sophisticated

  "The Salmon of Doubt". Book by Douglas Adams, en.wikiquote.org. 2002.

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• There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Book, Believe

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• It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

  Albert Camus

  Impossible, Bitter, Easy

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.9, Vintage

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• Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Learning, Creativity

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.

  J. G. Ballard

  Powerful, Surrender, Reason

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• Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books.

  Alberto Manguel

  Art, Book, Reading

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.9, Vintage Canada

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• We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strong, Truth, Acceptance

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.

  Ann Patchett

  Love, Kissing, Two

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• Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

  Douglas Adams

  Thinking, Doe, Fooled

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.649, Pan Macmillan

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