"Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances." — Haruki Murakami

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• Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what… — David Whyte
• Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound… — Unknown Author
• Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them. — Paul Lockhart
• People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has… — Kenny Smith
• Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From… — Anatoli Boukreev
• To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to… — Ludwig Boltzmann
• The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
• How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said… — Joel Salatin
• What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A… — Fernando Pessoa
• To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It… — Walter Kirn
• I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you… — Bryce Courtenay
• What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A… — Hemantsmarty

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