Iconoclastical

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"It felt like a passport back to america for people who'd become so estranged from their own country, that they felt like foreigners even when they were in it" (unknown on The Band)

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"Of course homeopathy works. That's why we buried Bin Laden at sea... to cure terrorism."

Reddit post on scientific misconceptions

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"YEAH! LET'S ALL BE MILLIONAIRES! C'MON EVERYONE, WORK HARDER!" Oh... but hang on.... then we'd all be... equal.  Does that mean capitalism is really... communism?

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If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.

General Eric Shinseki, Former Chief of Staff, US Army

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On the fundamental attribution error

Life is better when we apply the same standards to others as we do to ourselves.

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Do not let the reason you can't decide what to do, be the reason you do nothing.

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It strikes me that an awful lot of human endeavour is the struggle to understand a reality that is not ours to understand. I don't mean that we should give up, but to recognise that its somewhat arrogant to think we can know the immense chaos the world presents. When we create a piece of art, we try to model the world, to find an inner truth; is this not the same for, say, scientific research? All we ever have is tiny shards of insight, floating in a sea of knowledge as big as the universe itself.

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Lately, I've been trying to summarise world events as simply as possible.

Too much money in too few hands.

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I won't ever change their minds. So I give up.

Instead, I shall just annoy them.

From now on, I won't say 'Jesus', I shall say 'the theory of Jesus'.

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'Theodicy': a philosophical attempt to justify God's benevolent nature. 

Far too close to 'Idiocy', no?

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Sometimes I think that Mark Chapman was a time traveller, attempting to save us from a horrible christmas tune that Lennon hadn't written yet. 

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(every xmas, Paul McCartney's "simply having a wonderful christmas time" drives me crazy). 

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It appears that misinformed people often have some of the strongest political opinions.

Dangerousminds

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"That's the real lesson that science provides--the vastness of our ignorance."

Jae Won Joh

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Philanthropic millionaires seem ignorant of the fact that their extreme wealth is a bigger problem than the ones they are trying to solve.

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Religion is the hardest thing for me to exercise non-judgement about. I will continue to ponder why this is.

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The act of violence comes in buying the meat, not eating it.

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There will always be people that feel they deserve to be at the top of the economic food chain, and it's society's job to stop them getting there.