Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

Life undulates; there is no such thing as a level; a straight line is a myth, and all directions are indirections.
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Indirection Life Straight Undulates
Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.
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Dead Fame Parlor
Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in a match. The commonplace is the habitual, and the habitual is a mystery that has grown stale from sense-insistence.
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Common Habitual Life Mystery Place Sense
Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.
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Laughter Progress Victory
Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist.
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Cells Eye Swimming
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.
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Atheist Philosophy Running

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