Quote #6

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

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  3. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded. Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, wil…
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  5. The fittest survive.
  6. The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.
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