Add some fortunes and re-order the Feynman problem solving algorithm.
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@ -16957,6 +16957,15 @@ For a light heart lives long.
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For adult education nothing beats children.
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For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and
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women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant
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religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith.
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The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the
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known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to
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prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to
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misery hereafter. The few have said "Think". The many have said "Believe!"
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-- Robert Ingersoll, "Gods"
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For an idea to be fashionable is ominous,
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since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
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@ -30612,6 +30621,9 @@ Many people resent being treated like the person they really are.
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Many people write memos to tell you they have nothing to say.
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Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.
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-- Bertrand Russell
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Many receive advice, few profit by it.
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-- Publilius Syrus
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@ -31081,6 +31093,10 @@ Men live for three things, fast cars, fast women and fast food.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it
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from religious conviction.
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-- Blaise Pascal, "Pensées", 1670
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Men never make passes at girls wearing glasses.
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-- Dorothy Parker
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@ -32549,6 +32565,7 @@ It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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-- Robert Heinlein
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Never use "etc." -- it makes people think there is more where
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there is not or that there is not space to list it all, etc.
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@ -37728,12 +37745,6 @@ Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature
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cannot be fooled.
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-- R.P. Feynman
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The Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm:
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(1) write down the problem.
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(2) think very hard.
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(3) write down the answer.
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--Murray Gell-mann
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Really?? What a coincidence, I'm shallow too!!
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Reappraisal, n:
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@ -40541,6 +40552,11 @@ Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy
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have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
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-- Martin Luther
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Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is
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none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities,
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sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.
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-- Murray Gell-Mann, "Quark and the Jaguar"
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Supervisor: Do you think you understand the basic ideas of Quantum Mechanics?
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Supervisee: Ah! Well, what do we mean by "to understand" in the context of
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Quantum Mechanics?
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@ -40587,10 +40603,6 @@ Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest
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men in national government too.
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-- Richard M. Nixon
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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are
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dishonest men in national government too.
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-- Richard Nixon
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"Surely you can't be serious."
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"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
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@ -42352,6 +42364,12 @@ anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their
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husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism
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and become lesbians."
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The Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm:
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(1) write down the problem.
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(2) think very hard.
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(3) write down the answer.
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-- Murray Gell-Mann
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The Fifth Rule:
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You have taken yourself too seriously.
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@ -45697,6 +45715,10 @@ The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.
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The whole of life is futile unless you
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consider it as a sporting proposition.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
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so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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-- Bertrand Russell
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The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
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-- Peter Beard
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