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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by…
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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,…
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps…
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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is…
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The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…
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Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of…
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The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.…
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One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to…
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
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We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds,…
— Roger Ebert
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Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier…
— Petrarch
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The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress…
— Robert Barany
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The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A…
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People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to…
— Simon Blackburn
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This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse…
— Elaine Scarry
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Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time…
— Unknown Author
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Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams
— Neil Gaiman
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