Superrational Quotes

#1. Supperational thinkers, by recursive definition, include in their calculations the fact that they are in a group of superrational thinkers.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#2. Reason #2: The other reason you'll want to track your productivity is because of a little-known principle called The Hawthorne Effect. This effect says that whatever you measure improves.

Ryan Healy

#3. A first impulse was never a crime.

Pierre Corneille

#4. Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Dick Armey

#5. Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star.

Cobie Smulders

#6. I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.

Ricky Jay

#7. But neither milk-white rose nor red
May bloom in prison air;
The shard, the pebble, and the flint,
Are what they give us there:
For flowers have been known to heal
A common man's despair.

Oscar Wilde

#8. So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

George Eliot

#9. Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice is always an agon, a conflict, and to refuse this assertion is to consign human beings to wallow in some emotional, fusional balm.

Simon Critchley

#10. Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

Wayne W. Dyer

#11. The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.

Angelus Silesius

#12. For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

C.S. Lewis

#13. Finally, promoting conjugal marriage need not and should not involve prohibiting any consensual relationship. For all these reasons, libertarians should favor the regulation of marriage-which is, again, practically inevitable anyway.

Sherif Girgis

#14. She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.

Jessica Khoury

#15. 'Fresh' was maybe the third audition that I had after I got an agent, so I was crazy excited when I booked it.

Guillermo Diaz