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Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the… — Tom Robbins
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to… — Michael Shermer
I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and… — Sufjan Stevens
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment — Eckhart Tolle
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. — Eckhart Tolle
I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city. — Orhan Pamuk
It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than… — Fred Hoyle
Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the… — Andrew Marr
The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in… — Donald Knuth
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed… — Sigmund Freud
Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in… — Mary Karr
You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical. — David Einhorn
I used to think that good short-sellers could be trained like long-focused value investors because it should be the same skill set; you’re tearing into… — James Chanos
This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim,… — Maria Montessori
We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated their treatment to… — Larry Crabb
Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill… — Richard Florida
Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior. — Alfie Kohn
Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become… — Ibn Khaldun
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them… — Allen Tate
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to… — Octave Mirbeau
Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one’s loss a… — Christian Wiman
I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure and… — Christian Wiman
A woman by her very nature is maternal -- for every woman, whether ... married or unmarried, is called upon to be a biological, psychological… — Alice von Hildebrand
The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation — Philippe Perrin
Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps as… — Jesse Bering

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