GOLDEN MOMENTS

for your mind and soul

Flow knowledge and wisdom into your mind. It is a wonderful storehouse. When needed it flows the needed knowledge and wisdom right back into your conscious awareness. Unbelievably fast. Greatly expand what you can think, feel, become.

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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,

so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Socrates

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A book must be the ax

for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka

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News outlets preach to their choirs

and then bash each other for being biased.

Craig Spencer

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My wife and I were happy for twenty years.

Then we met.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Yield to temptation.

It may not pass your way again.

Robert A. Heinlein

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The trouble with the rat race

is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

Lily Tomlin

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Only dead fish go with the flow.

Andy Hunt

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It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Amelia Barr

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We hang petty thieves

and appoint the great ones to public office.

Aesop

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A politician is a fellow

who will lay down your life for his country.

Texas Guinan

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A member of Parliament to Disraeli:

"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."

"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul,

can always depend on the support of Paul!

Will Rogers

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To reach the unreachable star.

This is my quest to follow that star

No matter how hopeless,

No matter how far.

Don Quixote

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When in danger or in doubt,

Run in circles. Scream and shout.

Old Man

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How many people here have telekinetic powers?

Raise my hand.

Emo Philips

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Not realizing you have been brainwashed

is the sure sign you have been brainwashed.

Old Man

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Tension is who you think you should be.

Relaxation is who you are.

Chinese Proverb

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For me there is only traveling paths that have heart…and there I travel, looking, looking breathlessly.

Don Juan

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Ah, if only each side would be as diligent in critiquing their own facts and logic as they do those on the other.

Old Man

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We may never understand what’s going on,

and we might be very sorry if we ever did.

Woody Allen

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world,

for I would ride with you upon the wind

William Butler Yeats

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Accuse others of what you do.

Karl Marx

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All true knowledge is direct experience. It cannot be classified, it cannot be named. It cannot be set down in black and white. True knowledge is only experience, direct experience, and a matter of the inner senses.

Seth

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Do you wrestle with dreams?

Do you contend with shadows?

Do you move in a kind of sleep?

Your life stolen.

You tarried with trifles,

Victim of your folly.

Frank Herbert

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The pessimist complains about the wind;

the optimist expects it to change;

the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Aldous Huxley

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It takes a long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

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We don't stop playing because we grow old;

we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think they will sing for me.

T.S. Eliot

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

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MARIPOSA LILLY in the High Sierras

Distant mountains beckon me

To dream and glory in their paradise.

Peter Starr

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If yu ain’t got haters you ain’t poppin'.

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Why do you stay in prison

when the door is so wide open?

Rumi

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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans.

It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Horace

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Do not go where the path may lead,

go instead where there is no path

and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one."\

Winston Churchill's response

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."

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His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

Mae West

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What we call Reality is a hall of mirrors. It reflects itself back and forth and builds up a consensus.

Jon Rappaport

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I was standing at the bar at the Legion one night minding my own business.

This FAT ugly chick came up behind me, grabbed my behind and said, "You're kinda cute. You gotta phone number?"

I said, "Yeah, you gotta pen?"

She said, "Yeah, I got a pen".

I said, "You better get back in it before the farmer misses you."

Cost me 6 stitches . . . but when you’re close to seventy -- who cares?

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I went to the Legion last night and saw a BIG woman dancing on a table.

I said, "Good legs."

The girl giggled and said, "Do you really think so?"

I said, "Definitely! Most tables would have collapsed by now."

Cost me 6 more stitches, but when you’re close to seventy -- who cares?

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We don't have the knowledge or the brains to answer ultimate questions like how the universe began. We can have fun playing with words and metaphors but they point to nothing.

Old Man

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Accuse others of what you do.

Karl Marx

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So wonderfully satisfied. Floating through life in his bubble of hot air.

Old Man

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It is so much cheaper to pay for sex than get it for free.

Old Man

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There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Aristotle

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Marxism is also an opiate of the masses.

Any ideology is, and we are all ideologues.

Old Man

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Margaret Mead

I was wise enough to never grow up

while fooling most people into believing I had.

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One must still have chaos in oneself

to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Charlie Chaplin

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

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Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,

it is time to pause and reflect.

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The soul should always stand ajar,

ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

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Senility has set in.

I Just can't figure out if it's you or me.

Old Man

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For both Nietzsche and Emerson the point was to generate meaning through a continuous act of self-creation.

Thomas Meany

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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We think that there is something hiding reality and this must be destroyed before reality is gained.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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I think you're full of beans, but they are very high quality beans.

Old Man

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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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Confucius say: “Life is really simple. We insist on making it complicated."

Old Man say: “Life is really complicated. We insist on dumbing it down.”

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People commonly ask me what I’m afraid of in that I carry a gun, and my response is always, “I’m not afraid of anything.”

Unknown Mother

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Ellen Glasgow

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men,

and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

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“You touch words, Alice, not Reality.”

Yes, I felt the terror of those two men, but then stopped direct awareness and shifted to words-data-logic to figure out why they were so frightened.

Young Woman

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Ok, so what’s the speed of dark?

Steven Wright

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In the world of science and philosophy, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.

Alfred North Whitehead

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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

Yogi Berra

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Dr. Seuss

FUN IS GOOD.

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O bonnie are the greensward hewes,

Whar through the birks the burnie rowes,

An the bee bums, an the ox lowes,

An saft winds rustle

An shepherd lads, on sunny knowes,

Blaw the blithe whistle.

Alexander Ross

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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble,

you wouldn't sit for a month.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Robert A. Heinlein

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

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No one goes there nowadays,

it’s too crowded.

Yogi Berra

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W. Somerset Maugham

Love is only a dirty trick played on us

to achieve continuation of the species.

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I’m waiting for the day when me and my chick can cross the road without being asked stupid questions.

Old Man

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What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Washington Irving

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

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Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?

A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh.

Hollywood Squares:

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When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, how can that be? How can you not have all day?

George Carlin

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Baltasar Gracian

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My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail.

Lao Tzu

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Alan Watts

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

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From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust,

God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Rabindranath Tagore

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A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

Thomas Sowell

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Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

Aesop

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Muhammad Al with Nelson Mandela

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.

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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

Ayn Rand

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Objecting to criticism because it’s political spin, is political spin.

Old Man

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The eyes of others our prisons;

their thoughts our cages.

Virginia Woolf

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He got caught in a bunch of truths.

Old Man

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Ansel Adams

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I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Clint Eastwood

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Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go it’s pretty damn good.

Woody Allen

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It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Amelia Barr

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Carl Jung

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Ambrose Bierce

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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose

of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Ambrose Bierce

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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Ambrose Bierce

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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

Josh Billings

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An experience cannot be measured. Measurements from all the scientific instruments in the world add knowledge about the experience, but are not the experience. That holds true for all scientific measurements. They add knowledge about whatever is being measured, such as gravity, but are not what is being measured. The effect of gravity is not gravity.

Old Man

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The output of all scientific instruments must be in a form that our sensory system and brain structure can access. That necessarily severely restricts our ability to comprehend Reality using the scientific method.

Old Man

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E. M. Forster

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr

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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

The Buddha

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White collar conservative flashin down the street,

pointing that plastic finger at me,

they all assume my kind will drop and die,

but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

Jimi Hendrix

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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

The Buddha

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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Carl Sandburg

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Lord Byron

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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

Writing a poem is discovering.

Robert Frost

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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Franz Kafka

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Anatole France

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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Those who hammer their swords into plowshares

will plow for those who do not.

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Socialism: Give people a fish a day. They will vote for you forever.

Libertarianism: Teach a man to fish and he becomes independent.

Capitalism: Teach a man to sell his fish and he eats steak.

Old Man

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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

H.L. Mencken

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The greatest advances in science occur when some stubborn son-of-a-bitch has data that indicates that the consensus is wrong. The poor bastard better be ready for a life of abuse, failure and poverty. The old guard doesn’t change, it dies.

The next generation of scientists accepts the new paradigm, heaps lavish praise on the poor, dead, trouble maker, and are just as narrow minded and intolerant.

Old Man

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Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?

Caroline Myss

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72.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Steven Wright

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Rational discussion is useful

only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Noam Chomsky

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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Woody Allen

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Come to the dark side---we have cookies.

AOL chat room

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The early bird gets the worm,

but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Steven Wright

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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffer

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Even a man who is pure of heart

and says his prayers by night,

can turn to wolf when the wolf bane blooms,

and the autumn moon is bright.

The Wolf Man

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If you marry for money you will earn every penny.

Bill McGraw

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It is error only, and not truth,

that shrinks from inquiry.

Thomas Paine

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e. e. cummings

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

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W. C. Fields

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

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Arrogant dragon will have cause to repent.

I Ching

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To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

Timothy Leary

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Brendan Behan

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Oscar Wilde

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I bought some powdered water, but I don’t know what to add to it.

Steven Wright

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Confucius

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

George Carlin

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When you think of power you think of, say, nuclear energy, or solar energy---but power is the creative energy within man’s minds that allow them to use such powers, such energies, such force. The true power is in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is yet to be.

Seth

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I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left before we met.

Steven Wright

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The strength, vitality, and effectiveness of thought are seldom considered. Thought, you may say, will not stop a war---yet what do you think started such a war?

Seth

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Charlie Chaplin

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow,

always hopeful of romance and adventure.

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Virginia Woolf

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

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There are no facts, only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

Andy Warhol

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James Joyce

Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

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A. A. Milne

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,

and the letters get in the wrong places.

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All right, then, I'll go to hell.

Mark Twain

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Philosophy is common sense with big words.

James Madison

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so?”

“Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man postpones or remembers: he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

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The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.

Albert Einstein

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I've heard there are troubles

of more than one kind;

some come from ahead,

and some come from behind.

But I've brought a big bat.

I'm all ready, you see;

now my troubles

are going to have troubles with me!

Dr. Seuss

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"Would you sleep with me for $1,000,000.00?"

"YES!"

"How about $1.00?"

"What kind of woman do you think I am?!"

“We've already established what you are, ma'am.

Now we're just haggling over the price.”

George Bernard Shaw

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Those who score poorly on IQ tests are often able to experience in their reality a freer, more generous, more faithful flow of emotional states, unhampered by reason’s sometimes stern dictates.

There are others who are highly intellectually proficient, whose reasoning abilities are undisputed, and yet their considerable lack of emotional development remains largely invisible as far as your assessments are concerned. Such people are not considered retarded, of course.

Seth

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Care about what other people think

and you will always be their prisoner.

Lao Tzu

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The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

Carl Popper

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Bette Davis

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

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Words strain,

Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,

Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,

Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,

Will not stay still.

T. S. Eliot

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Science progresses

by moving from one false theory to another.

Karl Popper

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A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy. He says “You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference.”

But as long as I live, I’m going to be like Beethoven and shake my fist at fate and try to do something for those who live here now, and who knows how far into the future that will go.

If I accomplish nothing more than making my arm sore, at least I will be satisfied that I have lived.

Jackson Burnett

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Mind is not a guide but a product of cultural evolution, and is based more on imitation than on insight or reason.

Friedrich Hayek

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How young can you die of old age?

Steven Wright

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John Keats

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

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The word "religion" beautifully defines itself, of course. It translates "to bind" from the Latin--"re" means back and "ligare" means to tie up. All religions are straightjackets, jackets for the straight.

Timothy Leary

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When you hear from organizers how many people attended a political or interest group rally cut the number in half. Double the number reported by their enemies.

This applies to any statistic that has political, economic, or moral significance.

Old Man

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If there’s no chocolate in Heaven, I’m not going.

Jane Seabrook

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Think left and think right and think low and think high.

Oh, the thinks you can think if only you try.

Dr. Seuss

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Science at its best is skeptical, a community of doubters and agnostics. At its worst, it’s a community of theologians.

Wesley Pruden

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What a struggle! Think of all the big powerful forces lined up ready to crush anything wonderful and holy and free!

Timothy Leary

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Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

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I went to a garage sale.

"How much for the garage?"

Steven Wright

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Men have only two emotions: hungry and horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.

Adi Da

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Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.

Zig Ziglar

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The single biggest problem in communication

is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw

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How do you tell when you are out of invisible ink?

Steven Wright.

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We don't see things as they are.

We see them as we are.

Anais Nin

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Cyril Connolly

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W. C. Fields

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

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I never drink water

because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

W. C. Fields

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I spent half of my money on booze, women and gambling. The other half I wasted.

W. C. Fields

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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Thomas Jefferson

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Yes the map is not Reality but some maps are more accurate and useful than others. Become familiar with many sides of an issue before deciding on the best map. And always be ready to adjust or change your maps when new ideas and data become available.

Whatever you do, never, never, ever believe your maps are Reality.

Old Man

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Katharine Hepburn

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,

journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Oscar Wilde

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I intend to live forever.

So far, so good.

Steven Wright

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Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

Zig Ziglar

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C. G. Chesterton

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don’t know it.

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

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Politics: a strife of interests

masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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He was like a cock

who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

George Eliot

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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Henry Miller

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William Butler Yeats

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

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There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Bruce Lee

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When everything is coming your way,

you’re in the wrong lane.

Steven Wright

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Distract, deflect, distort, demonize---the Big Four used by politicians and interest groups all the time. Well, almost all the time. Sometimes somebody slips. That’s called a gaff.

Old Man

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“So there is more to this world than scientific materialism assumes?”

“Oh my yes. Scientism is more intolerant and closed-minded than most religions. And a whole lot more arrogant.”

Young Woman

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Henry Miller

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

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Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

Jonathan Swift

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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

William James

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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Alexander Pope

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Special Interest Group 101.

The more funds you receive from government, the more politicians you can make happy, who will send you more funds from the government to make them even happier. Everybody wins.

Old Man

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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Dale Carnegie

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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Mae West

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Calvin Coolidge

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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained

than lying to others.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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They keep saying the right person will come along.

I think mine got hit by a truck.

Erica Jong

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Gloria Steinem

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

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Vladimir Lenin

The way to crush the bourgeoisie

is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

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The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

Laurence J. Peter

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John Wayne

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vine - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Lloyd Wright

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On a Septic Tank Truck:

YESTERDAY'S MEALS ON WHEELS

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Jim Morrison

Where's your will to be weird?

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When all else fails, play your "Suffering Little Children Card".

TrulyDisgusted

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"I didn't think you guys gave pretty women tickets?”

“We don't. Sign here."

Whack!

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Old Man

Every once in a while, just for the hell of it, put down your talking points and narratives, and try an original thought.

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Horace

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Mae West

Is that a pistol of your pocket,

or are you just happy to see me?

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Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?

A. Rose Marie: No. Wait until morning.

Hollywood Squares

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Narratives are inevitably moralistic; they are never created spontaneously from “the facts” but are rather stories imposed upon a range of phenomena that always include implicit ideas about what’s right and what’s wrong.

Jeremy Caradonna

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Beauty is the bait

which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Socrates

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a

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Herman Melville

It is not down in any map;

true places never are.

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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Lao Tzu

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Lao Tzu

If you are depressed

you are living in the past.

If you are anxious

you are living in the future.

If you are at peace

you are living in the present.

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Thomas Huxley

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

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Robin Williams

You're only given a little spark of madness.

You mustn't lose it.

__________

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Thomas Sowell

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Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot

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I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t.

Patrick Murray

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If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.

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Thomas Sowell

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

___________

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

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Zig Ziglar

If you're going to have to swallow a frog,

you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!

___________

What passes for woman’s intuition is often nothing more than the transparency of men.

George Nathan

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Steve Jobs

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Terry Pratchett

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

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I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way.

So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

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Voltaire

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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Rene Descartes

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

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The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another.

H. L. Mencken

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When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Stephen Covey

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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

George Santayana

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Clothes make the man.

Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Mark Twain

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Vincent van Gogh

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

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Scientists, like Pavlov’s Dog, are trained to support the agenda of those who feed them research funds. Both train easily.

Old Man

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Thomas Huxley

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Steve Jobs

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

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Knowledge is an unending adventure

at the edge of uncertainty.

Frank Herbert

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Richard Feynman

Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question — to doubt — to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.

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Contemplate the fire, contemplate the clouds, and when omens appear and the voices sound in your soul, abandon yourself to them without wondering whether convenient or good to do so.

If you hesitate, you will spoil your being, you will die before your time. For our God is Abraxas, and he is both God and Devil---and you will find him in the worlds of light and shadow.

Carl Jung

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So the darkness shall be the light,

and the stillness the dancing.

T. S. Eliot

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May you have a life of love and joy

discovery and wonder.