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• Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

  Shirley Jackson

  Fighting, Yield, Doctors

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.110, Penguin

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• All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge,,then we become the gravediggers.

  Rod Serling

  Men, Buchenwald, Dachau

  "The Twilight Zone (Deaths-Head Revisited)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. November 10, 1961.

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• Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.

  N. T. Wright

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• It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.

  Nancy Horan

  Memories, Past, Order

  Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, May, Determined

  "The Trial". Book by Franz Kafka, ch. 10, 1920.

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• Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Blessed, Science

  "The Devil's Dictionary:". Book by Ambrose Bierce (p. 204), 2008.

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• In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The searcher after truth must search with humanity. Ruthless logic is the sign of a limited mind. The truth can only add to the sum of what you know, while a harmless mystery left unexplored often adds to the meaning of life. When a truth is not so important, it is better left as a mystery.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Men, Humanity, Mind

  "The Power of One".

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• Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

  Andre Agassi

  Winning, Thinking, Play

  Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.365, Vintage

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• If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

  Sam Harris

  Logical Arguments, Should, Evidence

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• Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.

  Tammara Webber

  Love, Heart, Fit

  "Easy". Book by Tammara Webber, May, 2012.

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• When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart’s desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature’s gifts, to use them well.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Heart, Desire, Use

  Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.433, North Atlantic Books

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• Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Art, Chess

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• The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Humorous, Men, Years

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

  Will Durant

  Philosophy, India, Chess

  "The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1930.

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• Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.

  Roger Schank

  Stories, Humans

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• Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Forgotten, Claims

  "Mommie Dearest" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. October 20, 2003.

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• Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction... At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem...

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Doctors, Blue

  "Neil Gaiman reveals power of writing Doctor Who" by Tim Masters, www.bbc.com. May 24, 2010.

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• Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

  Sol LeWitt

  Artist, Leap, Conclusion

  Sol LeWitt (2006). “Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers”, Richter Verlag

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• There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, People, Fit

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs”, p.115, Random House

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• By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

  William Butler Yeats

  Imagination, Progressive, Reason

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• You are right to be wary. There is much bullshit. Be wary of me too, because I may be wrong. Make up your own mind after you evaluate all the evidence and the logic.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Workout, Bad Ass, Bullshit

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• If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and cannot be subjected to rational explanation.

  Robert Moss

  Running, Determination, Words Of Wisdom

  Robert Moss (2010). “The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination”, p.122, New World Library

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• Life . . . is a joyful expression of love, praise and thanksgiving instead of a hopeless struggle which eventually ends in death. Giving thanks in every circumstance, we forego the logic and reason which asks, "Why me?" and open our hearts and learn to trust. Every obstacle becomes an occasion for rejoicing. We put love at the center of our universe and we are lifted beyond the world of limitation, doubt, and fear into the realm of love, hope, and eternal happiness.

  Robert Scheid

  Life, Struggle, Learning

  Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”

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• Ronald Reagan was an actor. Not at all a factor, Just an employee of the country's real masters. Just like the Bushes, Clinton and Obama, Just another talkin' head tellin' lies on teleprompters. If you don't believe the theory, then argue with this logic: Why did Reagan and Obama both go after Gaddafi? We invaded sovereign soil, goin' after oil Takin' countries as a hobby paid for by the oil lobby, Same as Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ahmadinejad sayin' they comin' for Iran.

  Killer Mike

  Country, Real, Lying

  "Killer Mike: R.A.P. Music" by Evan Rytlewski, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2012.

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