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Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?
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I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by 'feminine' Rodriguez principlesqualities like love and care and intuition.


— 1991Body and Soul.

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To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

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— P. 169. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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W. Mark Felt was 'Deep Throat' and helped us immeasurably in our Watergate coverage.

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— Statement by Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, hours after public release of the Vanity Fair article.

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It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human rights" conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.

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— "A Fanfare for Prometheus" (29 January 1955).

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The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living.

herbert marcuse

— p. x (One-Dimensional Man (1964))

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To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (1868).

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Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?


— Stephen Jay Gould, "Tires to sandals", in Eight Little Piggies (1993)

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