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1 After living in New York, you trust nobody, but you believe everything.
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2 Just in case.
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4 Words have a longer life than deeds.
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5 -- Pindar
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7 If science were explained to the average person in a way that is accessible
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8 and exciting, there would be no room for pseudoscience. But there is a kind
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9 of Gresham's Law by which in popular culture the bad science drives out the
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10 good. And for this I think we have to blame, first, the scientific community
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11 ourselves for not doing a better job of popularizing science, and second, the
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12 media, which are in this respect almost uniformly dreadful. Every newspaper
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13 in America has a daily astrology column. How many have even a weekly
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14 astronomy column? And I believe it is also the fault of the educational
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15 system. We do not teach how to think. This is a very serious failure that
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16 may even, in a world rigged with 60,000 nuclear weapons, compromise the human
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17 future.
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18 -- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87
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20 O que não é lembrado nunca aconteceu.
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22 . . . . o o o o o
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24 ____==== ]OO|_n_n__][.
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26 oo oo 'oo OOOO-| oo\\_
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27 +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-$1-+--+--+--+--+
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29 Even a blind pig stumbles upon a few acorns.
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31 Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles
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32 In children's circuses could stay their troubles?
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33 There was a time they could cry over books,
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34 But time has set its maggot on their track.
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35 Under the arc of the sky they are unsafe.
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36 What's never known is safest in this life.
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37 Under the skysigns they who have no arms
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38 Have cleanest hands, and, as the heartless ghost
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39 Alone's unhurt, so the blind man sees best.
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40 -- Dylan Thomas, "Was There A Time"
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42 //// `\
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43 C--O-O--D
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48 A man sank into the psychiatrist's couch and said, "I have a
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49 terrible problem, Doctor. I have a son at Harvard and another son at
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50 Princeton; I've just gifted each of them with a new Ferrari; I've got
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51 homes in Beverly Hills, Palm Beach, and a co-op in New York; and I've
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52 got a thriving ranch in Venezuela. My wife is a gorgeous young actress
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53 who considers my two mistresses to be her best friends."
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54 The psychiatrist looked at the patient, confused. "Did I miss
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55 something? It sounds to me like you have no problems at all."
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56 "But, Doctor, I only make $175 a week."
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58 -=Shopping trolly=-
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