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The Function Of Science Is To Reassure; The Purpose Of Art Is To Upset.
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"The function of science is to reassure; the purpose of art is to upset. Therein lies the value of each."
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-- Edward Abbey...
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The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.
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The value of knowledge lies not in its accumulation, but in its utilization.
fence n. 1. A sequence of one or more distinguished (out-of-band) characters (or other data items)
used to delimit a piece of data intended to be treated as a unit (the computer-science literature calls this a `sentinel')....
fence: n. 1. A sequence of one or more distinguished ({out-of-band}) characters (or other data items)
used to delimit a piece of data intended to be treated as a unit (the computer-science literature calls this a `sentinel')....