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First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
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Insanity
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Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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Insanity, craziness or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity may manifest as violations of societal norms, including becoming a danger to themselves and others, though not all...
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in it
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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.
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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
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Social psychiatry
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An individual's reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong...
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Social psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry that focuses on the interpersonal and cultural context of mental disorder and mental wellbeing. It involves a sometimes disparate set of theories and approaches, with work stretching from epidemiological...
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By labeling a bundle of problems with a single conceptual label, we make dealing with that problem easier - provided we're not interested in solving it.
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Model
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An individual's reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong...
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In mathematical logic, the formal languages, formal systems, and theories which are studied have no meaningful content until they are given an interpretation within some other system. An interpretation is a semantic concept which consists in a...
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Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.
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By labeling a bundle of problems with a single conceptual label, we make dealing with that problem easier - provided we're not interested in solving it.
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Automobile
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The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.
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About 250 million vehicles are in the United States. Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 260 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The automotive industry designs,...
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The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.
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A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.
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Youth
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. -- Lamentations 3:27
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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
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Knowledge
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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No man knows less than the man who knows it all
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Ethics
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...
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Ethics is a branch of philosophy which seeks to address questions about morality, such as what the fundamental semantic, ontological, and epistemic nature of ethics or morality is (meta-ethics), how moral values should be determined (normative...
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The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.
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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
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Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
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Nature
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...
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Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic.
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The unnatural, that too is natural.
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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
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I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
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Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
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Bioethics
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If we don't play God, who will?
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Science fiction
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Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science. such as extra-terrestrial life forms, alien worlds, and time travel, often...
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Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
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Film
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Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
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People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything.
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I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Movies
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The Movies was an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.
This episode is also known as "The British Film Industry".
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Science
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") refers to any systematic knowledge-base or prescriptive practice that is capable of resulting in a prediction or predictable type of outcome. In this sense, science may refer to a highly skilled...
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A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.
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Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends.
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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Wisdom
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Wisdom is an ideal that has been celebrated since antiquity as the knowledge needed to live a good life. What this means exactly depends on the various wisdom schools and traditions claiming to help foster it. In general, these schools have...
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
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Theory
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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It is theory that decides what can be observed.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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Experience
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience as a general concept comprises knowledge of or skill in or observation of some thing or some event gained through involvement in or exposure to that thing or event. The history of the word experience aligns it closely with the concept of...
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Experience is largely non-transferable.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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Action
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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In philosophy, action has developed into a sub-field called philosophy of action. Action is what an agent can do.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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Artificial intelligence
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No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Major AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents," where an intelligent agent is a system that...
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More human than human
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The question of whether Machines Can Think ... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.
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Traffic engineering
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The trouble with traffic engineers is that when there’s a problem with a road, they always try to add something. To my mind, it’s much better to remove things.
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Software Testing
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It is not a test that finds a bug but it is a human that finds a bug and a test plays a role in helping the human find it.
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Software Testing is an empirical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test, with respect to the context in which it is intended to operate. Software Testing also provides...
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it
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Testing is an empirical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the software under test.
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Testing is questioning a product in order to evaluate it.
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War
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There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.
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War is a reciprocated, armed conflict, between two or more non-congruous entities, aimed at achieving a subjectively designed, geo-politically desired result. In his book, On War, Prussian military theoretician Carl Von Clausewitz calls war the ...
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The sky was full of stars, and every star an exploding ship.
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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind…
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
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C
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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.
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C++
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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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Hypertable is an open source BigTable alternative. The project is based on published best practices e.g. by Google in a BigTable publication and experience of engineers who were solving large-scale data-intensive tasks for many years.
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Art
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Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?
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Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature. The meaning of...
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There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.
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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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Writer
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A writer is anyone who creates a written work, though the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms.
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Depression
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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
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Depression in physiology and medicine refers to a lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ. It is in contrast to elevation. One of the online resource on Depression is
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Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
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Poetry
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Poetry (from the Greek "ποίησις", poiesis, a "making") is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as...
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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Courage
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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Courage, also known as bravery, will, intrepidity, and fortitude, is the ability to confront fear, pain, risk/danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. "Physical courage" is courage in the face of physical pain, hardship, or threat of death, while ...
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.
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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Tragedy
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
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Tragedy (Ancient Greek: τραγῳδία, tragōidia, "goat-song") is a form of art based on human suffering that offers its audience pleasure. While most cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, tragedy refers to a specific...
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It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
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In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.
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We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
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Doubt
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Doubt, a status between unbelief and disbelief, involves certainty or undistrust or lack of sureness of an alleged fact, an action, a motive, or a decision. Doubt brings into question some notion of a perceived "reality", and may involve delaying or...
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
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When in doubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask.
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Goal
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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
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An achievement is similar to an accomplishment.
Achievement may refer to:
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
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You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.
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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
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Business
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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.
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A business (also called a firm or an enterprise) is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit...
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Imagination
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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
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Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
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Imagination rules the world.
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
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Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.
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Intelligence
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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Technology
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Technology is a broad concept that deals with an animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects an animal species' ability to control and adapt to its environment. Technology is a term with origins in the Greek ...
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you.
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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
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Sanity
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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Sanity considered as a legal term denotes that an individual is of sound mind and therefore can bear legal responsibility for his or her actions. It is generally defined in terms of the absence of insanity. It is not a medical term, although the...
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Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
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Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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Suffering
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. -- Psalms 119:71
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It is the lot of man to suffer.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.
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Happiness
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Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
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Happiness is a state of mind or feeling such as contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. A variety of philosophical, religious, psychological and biological approaches have been taken to defining happiness and identifying its sources....
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
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Excellence
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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Excellence is the state or quality of excelling. Particularly in the field of business and organizations, excellence is considered to be an important value, and a goal to be pursued.
Excellence is derived from the Latin word excellentia.
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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.
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It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.
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Dream
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity; and thrill; in waking; to find they have been upon the verge of the great secret.
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Dreams are a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not fully understood, though they have been a topic of speculation and interest...
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Coffee
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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
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Coffee is a brewed beverage prepared from roasted seeds, commonly called coffee beans, of the coffee plant. Due to its caffeine content, coffee has a stimulating effect in humans. Today, coffee is one of the most popular beverages worldwide.
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Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
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Mathematics
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May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason?
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Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, relation, change, and various topics of pattern, form and entity. Mathematicians seek out patterns and other quantitative dimensions, whether dealing with numbers, spaces, natural science,...
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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...
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In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers.
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Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
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Debugging
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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
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Debugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs, or defects, in a computer program or a piece of electronic hardware thus making it behave as expected. Debugging tends to be harder when various subsystems are tightly...
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Money
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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Money is anything that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts. The main functions of money are as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. In the past, money was almost always commodity...
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Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.
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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.
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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
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God
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Trust in God, but tie your camel tight.
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God, as a male deity, contrasts with female deities, or "goddesses". While the term 'goddess' specifically refers to a female deity, words like 'gods' and 'deities' can be applied to all gods collectively, regardless of gender. They don't...
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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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God is only a great imaginative experience.
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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
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Camel
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Trust in God, but tie your camel tight.
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Camels are even-toed ungulates within the genus Camelus. The dromedary, one-humped or Arabian camel has a single hump and is well known for its healthy low fat milk, and the Bactrian camel has two humps. They are native to the dry desert areas of...
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Death
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
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Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that define a living organism. It refers to both a particular event and to the condition that results thereby. The true nature of the latter has for millennia been a central concern of...
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Memory
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
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In psychology, memory is an organism's mental ability to store, retain and recall information. Traditional studies of memory began in the fields of philosophy, including techniques of artificially enhancing the memory. The late nineteenth and early...
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
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Religion
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A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.
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A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendent quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life...
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Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
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Wine Making
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Grape growing is 90% art, wine making is 90% science.
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Grape Growing
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Grape growing is 90% art, wine making is 90% science.
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Fascism
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Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is a merger of state and corporate power.
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Fascism, pronounced /ˈfæʃɪzəm/, comprises a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology and a corporatist economic ideology. Fascists advocate the creation of a single-party state. Fascists believe that nations and/or races are in...
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Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.
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I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either.
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I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Innovation, novelty
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Innovation
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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The term innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations. A distinction is typically made between invention, an idea made manifest, and...
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It's not a revolution if nobody loses
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No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.
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Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
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INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.
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Novelty
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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Novelty is a patentability requirement. An invention is not patentable if the claimed subject matter was disclosed before the date of filing, or before the date of priority if a priority is claimed, of the patent application.
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Ideas
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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Ideas is a long running scholarly radio documentary show on CBC Radio One. Premiering in 1965 under the title The Best Ideas You'll Hear Tonight, it is currently hosted by Paul Kennedy and is on between 9:05 and 10:00 each weekday evening.
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Freedom
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Freedom, or the idea of being free, is a broad concept that has been given numerous interpretations by philosophies and schools of thought. The protection of interpersonal freedom can be the object of a social and political investigation, while the...
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.
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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
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Education
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
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Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual (e.g., the consciousness of an infant is educated by its environment through its interaction with its...
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Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.
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Torah study
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Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.
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Torah study is the study by Jewish people of the Torah, Hebrew Bible, Talmud, responsa, rabbinic literature and similar works, all of which are Judaism's religious texts. Ideally within Judaism it is done for the purpose of the mitzvah ("commandment...
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