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Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they… — Daniel Gilbert
Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible… — Sam Harris
It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition… — Jane Austen
The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some… — Edward Gibbon
What a funny watch!â€™ she remarked. â€˜It tells the day of the month, and doesnâ€™t tell what oâ€™clock it is!â€™ â€˜Why should it?â€™ muttered the… — Lewis Carroll
Christians believe that God came amongst us as a man, do they not? Yet the Muselmen say he was only a prophet, and that God… — David Clement-Davies
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really… — Terry Pratchett
You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature… — Jonathan Franzen
Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily… — Charles Darwin
We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real. — Jorge Luis Borges
It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense — Philip K. Dick
...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that… — Jose Saramago
The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new… — Alain de Botton
God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand… — Isaac Newton
If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches… — Napoleon Hill
It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own. — Leonardo da Vinci
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work… — Nikola Tesla
It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery. — Scott Lynch

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