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“A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.”

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“People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart.”

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“You are all my reasons.”

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“Among the students, the Phantom was often held up as a cautionary figure: Anybody who was too much of a grind or who lacked…

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A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.

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“It was the great Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann who first recognized that social behavior could be analyzed as games.”

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“I thought I could save a very worthwhile person.”

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“Hey Nash! You scared?' 'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!”

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“several studies have since shown that basic military training during peacetime can precipitate schizophrenia in men with a hitherto unsuspected vulnerability to the illness.15”

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“...his condition in Roanoke is a strong testament that lassitude, indifference and the peculiarities of his thought were primarily the consequences of his illness…

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“James Glass, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who has studied the delusions of schizophrenia, writes, “Delusion provides a certain, often unbreakable…

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The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness. The technique is: Just feel not disturbed.…

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Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what's more, they're also growing quickly and so they're absorbing lots more into the…

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