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The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.
Charles Fort
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Charles Fort
Age: 57 †
Born: 1874
Born: August 6
Died: 1932
Died: May 3
Autobiographer
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Albany
New York
Charles Hoy Fort
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The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.
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One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
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I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.
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Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.
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A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
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Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all.
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When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and you will make of their circumstances the litter you have made of your own.
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The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.
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The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.
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Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.
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Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.
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