"I hate quotations." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The understanding, like the eye, while it
makes us see and perceive all other things,
takes no notice of itself; and it requires
art and pains to set it at a distance and
make it its own object." ~ John Locke
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"In the corner of every genius' mind lies the
portion of the fool" ~ Aristotle
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"There is nothing so absurd but that it may
be found in the books of the philosophers" ~
Cicero
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"Your argument is sound...nothing
but sound" ~ Anonymous
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"People demand freedom of speech to make up
for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
~ Soren Kierkegaard
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"Only a brave person is willing to honestly
admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere
and logical mind discovers." ~Rodan of
Alexandria
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"In life you are given two ends, one to think with and the other to sit on. Your success in life depends on which end you use most. Heads you win, tails you lose." ~ Conrad Burns
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"Its not that I am afraid to die; I just
don't want to be there when it happens." ~
Woody Allen
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"Give me Immortality...Or Give Me Death!" ~
Firesign Theatre
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"Remember not only to say the right thing in
the right place, but far more difficult
still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the
tempting moment." ~ Benjamin Franklin
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"One of the lessons of history is that
nothing is often a good thing to do and
always a clever thing to say." ~ Will Durant
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"Truth is not determined by majority vote."
~ Doug Gwyn
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"A serious and good philosophical work could
be written consisting entirely of jokes." ~
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"What is mind? No matter. What is matter?
Never mind." ~ George Berkeley
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"God is at home, it's we who have gone out
for a walk." ~ Meister Eckhart
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"Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle." ~ R.C. Sproul
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"Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is
denied at the door" ~ Benjamin Jowett
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"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to
believe and take for granted; nor to find
talk and discourse; but to weigh and
consider." ~ Francis Bacon
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"It is what we think we know already that
often prevents us from learning." ~ Claude
Bernard
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"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment
for truth" ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Don't exchange what you want most for what you want at the moment." ~ Unknown
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"Science without religion is lame; religion
without science is blind." ~ Albert Einstein
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"The immense improbability that modern
science rests on, but cares not to discuss,
is the belief that the Universe sprang from
nothing in a single moment. If you can
believe that, then it's very hard to see what
you can't believe. Such intellectual
contortions are commonplace in science in
order to save particular theories." ~ Terence
McKenna
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"If I had no other data than the early chapters of Genesis, some of the Psalms, and other passages of Scripture, I would have arrived at essentially the same picture of the origin of the universe, as is indicated by the scientific data." ~ Arno Penzias, American physicist, recipient of the 1978 Nobel Prize
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"The greatest of human tragedies is a theory killed by a fact" ~ Unknown
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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not
ignorance - it is the
illusion of knowledge." ~ Daniel J Boorstin
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"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead." ~ Frank Gelett Burgess
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"It takes considerable knowledge just to
realize the extent of your own ignorance."
~ Thomas Sowell
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"To pretend that truth is so deeply hidden
from us and that it is hard to distinguish it
from falsehood is quite preposterous: the
truth remains hidden only while we have
nothing but false opinions and doubtful
speculations; but hardly has truth made its
appearance than its light will dispel dark
shadows." ~ Galileo
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"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should
have been more specific." ~ Unknown
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"There is no expedient to which a man will
not go to avoid the real labor of thinking."
~Unknown
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"Five percent of the people think; ten
percent of the people think they think; and
the other eighty-five percent would rather
die than think." ~ Thomas Edison
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"People don't ask for facts in making up
their minds. They would rather have one good,
soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts."
~ Robert Keith Leavitt
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"Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic." ~ William E. Gladstone
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"Facts are God's arguments; we should be
careful never to misunderstand or pervert
them." ~ Tryon Edwards
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"He that never changes his opinions, never
corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on
the morrow than he is today." ~ Tryon Edwards
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of
persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more
common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost
a proverb. Education will not; the world is
full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent." ~ Calvin
Coolidge
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"In addition to self-awareness,
imagination
and conscience, it is the
fourth
human
endowment- independent will
-
that really makes
effective self-management possible.
It is the
ability to make decisions and choices and to
act in accordance with them. It is the
ability to act rather than to be
acted upon,
to proactively carry out the program we have
developed through the other three endowments.
Empowerment comes from learning how to use
this great endowment in the decisions we make
every day." ~ Stephen Covey
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"We have not passed that subtle line between
childhood and adulthood until we move from
the passive voice to the active voice; that
is, until we have stopped saying 'It got
lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'" ~ Sydney J.
Harris
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"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I
understood as a child, I thought as a child:
but when I became a man I put away childish
things." ~ the Apostle Paul
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"The farther backward you can look,the
farther forward you are likely to see." ~
Winston Churchill
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A wise man, recognizing that the world is but
an illusion, does not act as if it is real,
so he escapes the suffering. ~ Buddha (B.C.
568-488)
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The wiser man, recognizing Buddha's
ontological error, decides not to remain a
consistent philosophical ostrich, suspends
his forced and temporary absurd denial of the
empirical evidence of sense perception, and
using his faculty of reason, re-calibrates
his ontology to allow for the reality of
traffic when crossing the street, thereby
escaping suffering. ~ Nominis Expers (A.D.
1954- )
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"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans." ~ President Bill Clinton
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"Good bye Bubba, and don't let the door hit you in rear-end on the way out!" ~ Gene @ www.TOPACHIEVEMENT.com
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"Learn to see things as they really are, not
as we imagine they are." ~ Vernon Howard
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"The first and best victory is to conquer
self; to be conquered by self is of all
things most shameful and vile." ~ Plato
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"Only the hand that erases can write the true
thing." ~ Meister Eckhart
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