JRJames Rozoff

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James Rozoff

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Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

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True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

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A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

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As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

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You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

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Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

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What is wisdom? It is the result of multiple paradigms brought to their intellectual furthest reaches and balanced and merged together. The fundamentalist, the person who only sees life through a single lens, can never hope for wisdom.

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Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

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There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

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Where there is hope there is life.

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Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

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Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.

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A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.

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We have created a world we don’t like, don’t understand and don’t trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.

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My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background that are invariably more interesting than the ones they possess. And confirming this character to be uninteresting after a few minutes of conversation, I decide that they are unnecessary to my story and begin devising ways to kill them off.

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A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.

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Art is the medium through which new thoughts, perspectives, and attitudes are brought into the world.

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Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.

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Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.

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Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others’ butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they’ve known for a lifetime.

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Intelligence resides between us as much as it resides in us. And it resides within the subconscious much more than it does the conscious. We’re just conscious-biased: our conscious mind wants us to think it’s the be all and end all.

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They are always the problem. There is no evil in this world you cannot blame on them. The world will never be right as long as they exist. Whereas we are right, we are always right. We desire to make the world a better place whereas they either consciously desire to make it worse or else are willing to make it so through wrong ideas. There is only one way to make the world we are trying to create, and that is to get rid of them, get rid of every last one of them. And the only way to do that is to stop creating them. Because there is no “they” until we choose to see someone as such. When we choose to see the humanity in everyone, then there is no more they, there is only us.

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The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.

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Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I’d be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.

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