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• I don't think we should punish the criminal [a rapist] by killing his child.
  -- Dr....
• Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
  I call it rather a discerning of the infinite in the finite- the ideal made real. -- Carlyle...
• And science, we should insist, better than any other discipline
  can hold up to its students and followers an ideal of patient devotion to the search for objective truth, with vision unclouded by personal or political motive....
• To be willing to die for an ideal is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Oscar Wilde (?)
• Scan for vessels in pursuit. Scanning. Indications are negative, at this time.
  Did I...get it right? -- Kirk and McCoy, "ST III...
• We celebrate egalitarianism and consensus, but it is phony
  a chaos of voices rather than a democracy; a populace of individuals pursuing their own ends rather than a collective....
• In any field of endeavor.the sciences, the humanities, the social sciences, industry, etc.
  .it is not the attainment of a goal that matters, but rather the ideas and discoveries that are encountered on the way to the goal....
• Popular consensus says that reality is based on popular consensus.
• It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than geniu
  it does not reach its goal, while genius, already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about....