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Vinculums of the Nexus
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
~Sophocles
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The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
~Robert J. Shillerfrom Irrational Exuberance
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
~Sophocles
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Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect.
~Eric Butterworth
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
~Simone de Beauvoir
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
~Alfred North Whitehead
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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
~Peter Ustinov
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
~Immanuel Kant
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Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
~Harriet Martineau
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The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
~Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
~George Sheehan
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I am no longer concerned with good and evil. What concerns me is whether my offering will be acceptable.
~Robert Frost
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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
~Howard Newton
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
~Mark Twain
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
~Friedrich Nietzschefrom The Gay Science, section 41
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
~Abraham Lincoln
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
~Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
~John Ruskin
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
~Will Durant
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
~Ayn Rand
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There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
~Sydney Smith
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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.
~Tony Robbins
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Everything that can be said can be said clearly.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Every logical position will eventually lead you into trouble, and heresy, and chaos. Every logical position is consistent, but it is logic which is in the human mind, not God's logic. The human mind is finite and cannot grasp eternity, and therefore the finite mind sees the infinite as not graspable coherently. If we could grasp it all coherently, without contradiction, we would be God. The person who insists on being logical to the end winds up in a mess. I am not saying that we should not be rational. I am not anti-intellectual. I am saying that the intellect by itself is helpless to arrive at total truth.
~Kenneth L. Pike