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• Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.

  Galileo Galilei

  Laughter, Philosophy, Science

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• Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find, some theory which, a posteriori, makes their actions appear to be logical. If that theory could be demolished scientifically, the only result would be that another theory would be substituted for the first one, and for the same purpose.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Men, Self, Would Be

  Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.

  Albert Camus

  Attitude, Fighting, Giving

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Clarification, Objects

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.76, Lulu.com

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• I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

  Richard Ford

  Mind, Orderly

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• The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Children, Stories, World

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• The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

  George Hamilton

  Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air.

  Howard Stern

  Mean, Air, Radio

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• If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.

  Francis Crick

  Foundation, Doe, Good And Bad

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• It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and Platoís heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.

  Robert Dabney

  Education, Children, Plato

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• We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.

  Don Tapscott

  Running, Age, Punctuation

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• Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Beauty, Art, Curves

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• Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Research, Painting

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• It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and poverty when it comes to creating and funding a national health care system for all Americans.

  Jesse Jackson, Jr.

  Powerful, Creating, World

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• Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process.

  Edward de Bono

  Simple, Thinking, Ideas

  The Use of Lateral Thinking foreword (1967)

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• I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.

  Ansel Adams

  Fall, Taken, Past

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• Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Decision, Action, Standards

  Joseph M. Juran (1995). “Managerial Breakthrough: The Classic Book on Improving Management Performance”

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• The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories and a recognition of the nation's legitimacy

  Ali Khamenei

  Issues, Territory, Recognition

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• In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.

  Sol LeWitt

  Simple, Squares, Color

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• We have in our head something called story grammar. We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions... In our serious society, storytelling is seen as being soft. But people process the world through story.

  Daniel H. Pink

  People, Stories, World

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• Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of knowledge properly called science… But admittedly we also know by feeling, and we can combine the two faculties, and present knowledge in the guise of art.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Two, Feelings

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view - the idea that we can control the forces of nature, that we can have short-term expedient gains without paying for them, that there are no limits to exploitation of the environment, that we can produce and consume faster than nature's ability to replenish.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Our World, Views, Ideas

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• [Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory means nothing in natural science without comparison with the exactest experience. Without this philosophic attitude, his work would not have been possible.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Attitude, Philosophy

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• It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Self

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• It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Future, Fiction, May

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