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- No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma -… — Alfred Adler
- Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to… — Stephen Jay Gould
- There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes,… — Norbert Wiener
- But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and… — Ann Patchett
- Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but… — John Searle
- As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes. — Mariella Frostrup
- No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might somehow succeed… — Dallas Willard
- I suspect that many of us, if given the chance to make one person in our lives love us more, would have… — Kevin Hearne
- Any anxious thought as to the means to be employed in the accomplishment of our purposes is quite unnecessary. If the end… — Thomas Troward
- The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before… — John Steinbeck
- English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old… — Willard Gaylin
- I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from… — Derek R. Audette