No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.
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Zum Autor"And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... Some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not."
"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing."
"That old feeling is still in my leaking heart."
"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values."
"The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it."
"Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death."