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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

Peter Kropotkin

War, Hands, Years

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I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Humorous, Sarcasm, Thinking

Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.614, Race Point Pub

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In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization can be replaced by another requirement, in which mention of "whole numbers" no longer occurs. Instead the integers occur in the same natural way as the integers specifying the number of nodes in a vibrating string. The new conception can be generalized, and I believe it touches the deepest meaning of the quantum rules.

Erwin Schrodinger

Believe, Communication, Science

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e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual sense of the word because I find that this is in the main an attitude nourished exclusively by an opposition against naive superstition. My feeling is insofar religious as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insuffiency of the human mind to understand deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature." It is this consciousness and humility I miss in the Freethinker mentality. Sincerely yours, Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein

Religious, Attitude, Humility

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The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Euthanasia, Mankind, Conclusion

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Funny, Military, Feelings

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In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the other side of the story - the side that reflects poorly on the government - somehow gets lost.

Richard J. Maybury

War, School, Government

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'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Pain, Memories, Moving

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Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this has led to scientific ideas...being advanced with a tenacity which so exceeds their intrinsic worth that one can only suspect the operation of psychological forces lying very much deeper than the usual academic desire of a theorist to support his or her theory.

Christopher Isham

Atheist, Lying, Ideas

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"I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I am a "Muslim" as "one surrendered to God," but I believe that embedded in the Quran and other expressions of the Islamic vision are vast stores of divine truth from which I and other occidentals have still much to learn, and 'Islam is certainly a strong contender for the supplying of the basic framework of the one religion of the future.'"

William Montgomery Watt

Strong, Believe, Islamic

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The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.

George Carlin

Mean, Deception, Genuine

George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.

James Hansen

Science, Long, Humanity

"Twenty years later: tipping points near on global warming" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2008.

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I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement.

Faith Baldwin

Forgiveness, Thinking, Achievement

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My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. How can it be that writing down a few simple and elegant formulae, like short poems governed by strict rules such as those of the sonnet or the waka, can predict universal regularities of Nature?

Murray Gell-Mann

Nature, Hard Work, Writing

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Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.

Stephen Jay Gould

Life, Simple, Diversity

Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History”, p.322, W. W. Norton & Company

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In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of a question when a supposed rhetorical advantage could be extracted from each.

Stephen Jay Gould

Struggle, Two, Groups

Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly, weight into weightlessness, nowhere to fall. As you lay on your back paddling in space you might notice your feet had fled your head. You are stretching slowly slowly, getting longer, your joints are slipping away from their usual places. There is no connection between your shoulder and your arm. You will break up bone by bone, fractured from who you are, drifting away now, the centre cannot hold.

Jeanette Winterson

Fall, Law, Two

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Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

Julian Barnes

Games, Guessing

Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.38, Random House

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On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?

Charles Dickens

Pain, Hands, Years

Charles Dickens (1841). “Master Humphrey's Clock”, p.121

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The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Ellis Peters

Talking, Voice, Ears

Ellis Peters (2014). “Brother Cadfael's Penance”, p.68, Head of Zeus

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As your older brother, it's my sacred duty to save you from yourself." She brings her fists down on the table, making all the dinner plates jump. "The ONLY reason you're fifteen minutes older than me is because you cut in front of the line, as usual!

Neal Shusterman

Brother, Cutting, Dinner Plates

Neal Shusterman (2010). “Bruiser”, p.9, Harper Collins

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Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.

George Orwell

Cat, Listening, Speech

David Ball, George Orwell (1984). “George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.28, Barron's Educational Series

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Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

Margaret Mitchell

Duplicity, Brain, Saws

Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.396, Hamilton Books

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Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

Malcolm Forbes

Country, Fashion, Lying

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