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1. "A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives." ~ Douglas R Hofstadter
2. "This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance." ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
3. "A mirror mirroring a mirror" ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
4. "Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!" ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
5. "I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially Create Infinite Regress" ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
6. "This computer-generated pangram contains six a's, one b, three c's, three d's, thirty-seven e's, six f's, three g's, nine h's, twelve i's, one j, one k, two l's, three m's, twenty-two n's, thirteen o's, three p's, one q, fourteen r's, twenty-nine s's, twenty-four t's, five u's, six v's, seven w's, four x's, five y's, and one z." ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
7. "Supperational thinkers, by recursive definition, include in their calculations the fact that they are in a group of superrational thinkers." ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
8. "We have a very hard time "seeing" our cognitive activity because it is the medium in which we swim. The attempt to put our finger on what counts in any given situation leads us at times to making connections between situations that are enormously different on their surface and at other times to distinguishing between situations that on first glance seem nearly identical. Our constant jockeying back and forth among our categories runs the gamut from the most routine behaviors to the most creative ones." ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
9. "We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest." ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
10. "No, no - I think about thinking" ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
11. "Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus on paper and bookbinding, ink and its chemistry, page sizes and margin widths, typefaces and paragraph lengths, and so forth." ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
12. "Meaning lies as muchin the mind of the readeras in the Haiku." ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
13. "Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law" ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
14. "In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference." ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
15. "What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" -- that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?" ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
16. "I would like to understand things better, but I don't want to understand them perfectly." ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
17. "[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth" ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
18. "Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls." ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter

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I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more."
Author: Alfred Tennyson

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