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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Author: Havelock Ellis
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A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.
Author: Lord Halifax
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The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.
Author: Arthur Koestler
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Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Author: Walter Lippmann
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Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.
Author: Ernst Mach
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Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. Many grown-ups will obstinately persist, if only now and then, in composing small strings of sentences in their heads and achieving at least momentary logic. This probably cannot be prevented, but we have learned how to minimize the consequences by arranging that such grown-ups will be unable to pursue that logic very far. If they were at home in the technology of writing, there's no telling how much social disorder they would cause by thinking things out at length.Our schools have chosen to cut this danger off as close to the root as possible, thus taking measures to preclude not only the birth of thought but its conception. They give the pill to even the youngest children, but just to be on the safe side, they give it to everybody else, too, especially all would-be schoolteachers.
Author: Richard Mitchell
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Most people would find it bizarre to speak of tolerating blonds. For whatever reason, hair color has not been a basis of tribal identity or group politics in our culture; the concept of tolerance is never invoked in this context because there is too obviously nothing to tolerate. In a rational culture, the same would be true of race, ethnicity, and the like.
Author: David Kelley
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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
Author: Kate Halverson
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If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.
Author: Lucille S. Harper
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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Author: Olin Miller
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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Author: John Renmerde
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Author: Roy Goodman
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People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Author: Sir J. Lubbock
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Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - The Heart's Domain.
Author: Georges Duhamel
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Author: Rotarian
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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. - Aphorisms and Reflections.
Author: John Lancaster Spalding
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There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. - "Prisoners of their Hairdos".
Author: Christine Lavin
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The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
Author: Vic Braden
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You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.
Author: Eric Burdon
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When I dream, I am ageless.
Author: Elizabeth Coatsworth
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Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
Author: William Dement
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Author: E. M. Cioran
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...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the human mind has asked are questions that can be answered in terms of the alternatives that the questions themselves present. But in fact intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume - an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them. Old questions are solved by disappearing, evaporating, while new questions corresponding to the changed attitude of endeavor and preference take their place.
Author: John Dewey
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Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.
Author: John R. Searle
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Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Author: Rollo May
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It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings.
Author: Rollo May
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Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call "genius" has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.
Author: Nathaniel Branden
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It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.
Author: Nathaniel Branden
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It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.
Author: Carl Von Clausewitz
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
Author: Seneca
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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
Author: E.b. White
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We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.
Author: Helmut Schoeck
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Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.
Author: Carl Von Clausewitz
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Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.
Author: Carl Von Clausewitz
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We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.
Author: Frederic Bastiat
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All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.
Author: Edgar Z. Freidenberg
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Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.
Author: Nathaniel Branden
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If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.
Author: Nathaniel Branden
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Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.
Author: Nathaniel Branden
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The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.
Author: Nathaniel Branden
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
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In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
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The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.
Author: Havelock Ellis
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When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
Author: Jessica Lange
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If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
Author: Joyce Chapman
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
Author: Tom Clancy
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Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Author: Belva Davis
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
Author: Marie E. Eschenbach
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The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.
Author: Maria De Beausacq
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