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1 " Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. "
― Bill Watterson
2 " We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." " Is that a lie?" " It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. " Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth. "
3 " Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not possible to be knowledgeable without getting a Ph.D. and doing a postdoc. Guns and hunting provided an out for men who wanted to be know-it-alls but who couldn't afford to spend the first three decades of their lives getting up to speed on quantum mechanics or oncology. "
― Neal Stephenson , Reamde
