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Norman Vincent Peale
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
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Vine Deloria
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
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Henry Havelock Ellis
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
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Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.
...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.
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Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.
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Izaak Walton
God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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Christopher S. Drew
I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.
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Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
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Terry Pratchett, Jingo
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
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American Proverb
Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
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