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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged…

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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…

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The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the… — James Prescott Joule
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field… — Arthur Koestler
I don't subscribe to the 'Doctor Who' magazine and we've only got the normal amount of 'Doctor Who' fridge magnets. — Arabella Weir
The leading distinction of magnets is sex... The kind that is found in Troas is black, and of the female sex, and… — Pliny the Elder
If you are centered in peace and think thoughts that are kind and loving, you will attract the same kind of ideas… — James Van Praagh
Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the… — Napoleon Hill
We are like magnets - like attract like. You become AND attract what you think. — Rhonda Byrne
Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had… — Laini Taylor
Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for… — Virgil Goode
We are all human magnets. Our deeds, attitudes and thoughts attract in kind. Gets back with interest exactly what he sends. — Sterling W Sill
Those who live in the realization of their oneness with the Infinite Power become magnets to attract to themselves a continual supply… — Ralph Waldo Trine

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