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That's how the kind of society I live in works, me and my friends and my contacts, we don't work in any hierarchical sense. No one wants a boss, to be a boss, to work under a boss. The people you like working with are the people you respect as individuals. (Alan Moore)
It's only science that cannot consider thought as a real event, and science is not reality. It's a map of reality, and not a very good one. It's good, it's useful, but it has its limits. View quote
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The whole program of evolution seems to be to diversify, because in diversity there is strength. And if you apply that on a social level, then you get something like anarchy. View quote
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In fact, let us not mince words... the management is terrible! We've had a string of embezzlers, frauds, liars, and lunatics making a string of catastrophic decisions. This is plain fact. But who elected them? It was you! View quote
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Keep in a dry place, keep away from children and strike gently away from the body. View quote
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Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns. View quote
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Magic is having a plan of all the tunnels, and seeing the overall condition in which they all work. Being aware of different possibilities. View quote
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I see magic as a vantage point from which one can look down on the rest of consciousness. View quote
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Unless you're talking about some incredibly rigid Victorian family, there is nobody that could be said to be the leader of the family; everybody has their own function. And it seems to me that anarchy is the state that most naturally obtains when you're talking about ordinary human beings living their lives in a natural way. View quote
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I have a more fractal way of working. View quote
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The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. (Alan Moore)
Things tend to organise themselves. If there is any message from contemporary science, it is surely that. View quote
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Politics sometimes sells itself as having an ethical dimension, as if there was good politics and bad politics. As far as I understand it, the word actually has the same root as the word polite. It is the art of conveying information in a politic way, in a way that will be discrete and diplomatic and will offend the least people. View quote
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God is in the rain. View quote
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But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream? It came true. You're lookin' at it. View quote
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen? View quote
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I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell. View quote
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The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity. View quote
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Her name is. And she has taught me more as a mistress than[Justice] ever did! She has taught me thatis meaningless without. is honest. makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike,. View quote
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By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe. View quote
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They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still. (Alan Moore)
Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. View quote
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I did the right thing, didn't I? It all worked out in the end.'In the end'? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends. View quote
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I can remember my Dad, god bless him, and he was telling me – when I was growing up – that machines would do everything. It would be great. There wouldn't be any need to go to work because the machines would do everything. He thought that the working class would then be given a holiday, to Yarmouth or somewhere, forever. He was right except about the holiday to Yarmouth. He hadn't really thought it through. He still trusted the society he was in. That he would be looked after. It turns out to have been a much more pragmatic relationship all along. I think we should have taken the clue when Thatcher said there is no such thing as society. What she meant was – just like the London-Liverpool thing – "we don't need there to be a society anymore”. "We are getting what we want anyway, therefore we do not need your support. Therefore we do not need to maintain the illusion of society anymore.” -->. View quote
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We don't have a tradition of masked heroes really anywhere else in the world apart from America. View quote
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