The multiplication of our
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. Emile M. Cioran
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The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. Emile M. Cioran
The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader’s way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, … Read more
Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table. David Hilbert
Life hereafter for God’s children, will be an extension or an amplification, a multiplication of the joy and thrilling, exciting lives we now lead! Hell is the extension, multiplication, amplification, endless continuation of the same awful lives that the wicked people of the world lead even now! Hell is just the opposite of the ecstasies … Read more
For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively … Read more
The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins. Cyprian
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain. Charles Caleb Colton
Do the day’s work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don’t be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don’t … Read more
Don’t hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don’t hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Calvin Coolidge
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author’s promotion from assistant to associate professor. C. Northcote Parkinson