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One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly,… — Jean-Paul Sartre
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance… — Carl Sagan
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is… — Steven Pinker
In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered… — Carol Shields
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his… — Wendell Berry
If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we… — Audre Lorde
After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend… — Karen Armstrong
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so… — John Gardner
Once committed to fight, cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no… — Terry Goodkind
It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who… — Graham Greene
Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction. — Lewis Carroll
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The… — Ingmar Bergman
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions. — Cory Doctorow
We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us… — Lloyd Alexander
The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at people, designed to… — George Carlin
The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc.,… — Michael Pollan
Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you. — Sarah Addison Allen
My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the… — Lisa Lutz
I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the… — Barbara Kingsolver
the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith — Ernest Becker
The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but… — Ming-Dao Deng
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior. — Henry Miller
Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes… — Daniel J. Siegel
After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it… — Alice Sebold

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