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- Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed in. It entails…
- The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person…
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- That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior. — B.F. Skinner
- The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us… — Morris Raphael Cohen
- McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The… — Noah Richler
- McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever… — Holmes Rolston III
- So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books… — Cees Nooteboom
- Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the… — Jonathan Raban
- It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for… — Ulysses S. Grant