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Lawyer
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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 a person becoming a danger to themselves or others, though...
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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 the most general sense, a model is anything used in any way to represent anything else. Some models are physical objects, for instance, a toy model which may be assembled, and may even be made to work like the object it represents. They are used...
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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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Youth is the time of life between childhood and adulthood (maturity). Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary. An individual's actual maturity may not correspond to their chronological age, as immature individuals could...
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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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knowledge is understanding a concept in way that it can be put into a mental picture or draw as an illustration to show depth and true meaning of the concept as it is. it comes in quantity too much, average and too little how ever it can not be...
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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, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior.
Major areas of study in ethics include:
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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 is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible (or at least non-supernatural) content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities. Exploring the...
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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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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 is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies — a BAFTA-nominated series for Best Light Entertainment Programme.
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Science
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. In an older and closely related meaning (found, for example,...
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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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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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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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The English word theory was derived from a technical term in philosophy in Ancient Greek. The word theoria, θεωρία, meant "a looking at, viewing, beholding", and referring to contemplation or speculation, as opposed to action. Theory is especially...
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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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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Experience as a general concept comprises knowledge of or skill 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 experiment. For...
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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 that aims to create it. 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 investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to...
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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 an organized, armed, and often a prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional...
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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++
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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++ (pronounced "cee plus plus") is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level...
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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 a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but is most often understood to refer to painting, film, photography, sculpture, and other visual media. Music, theatre, dance, literature, and...
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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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Photographing a cake can be art.
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Writer
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“Sociologically, politically, psychologically, spiritually, it was never enough for him [James Baldwin] to categorize himself as one thing or the other: not just black, not just sexual, not just American, nor even just as a world-class literary artist. He embraced the whole of life the way the sun’s gravitational passion embraces everything from the smallest wandering comet to the largest looming planet. He both confronted and cultivated creative vision with a drive, passion, and brilliance that few have matched, and simply being able to watch his genius sparkle from one sentence to the next could generate both awe and revelation.”
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A writer is a person who produces literature or nonfiction, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, essays, articles, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images.
A writer's output...
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.
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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.
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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 "poiesis" — "ποίησις" — with a broad meaning of a "making", seen also in such terms as "hemopoiesis"; more narrowly, the making of poetry) is a form of literary art which uses the aesthetic qualities of language to evoke...
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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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“Xenophobia–– you banished with a moonwalk… danced hate into joy.” --from poem Notes for an Elegy in the Key of Michael
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“Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.”-- from Circles and Arcs
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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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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 (Greek: τραγῳδία, tragōidia, "he-goat-song") is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing. While many cultures have developed forms that provoke this...
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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 belief and disbelief, involves uncertainty or distrust 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 known as enterprise or firm) is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn...
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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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Intelligence has been defined in many different ways, including the abilities, but not limited to, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, reasoning, learning, having emotional knowledge, retaining, planning, and problem...
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"There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint."
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Technology
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and...
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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 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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Suffering, or pain in a broad sense, is an experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm in an individual. Suffering is the basic element that makes up the negative valence of affective phenomena.
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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 mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define...
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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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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 successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively understood, though they have been a topic of scientific...
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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 with a bitter, acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America,...
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Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
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Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
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Right, you just brush your teeth with coffee grounds.
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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 (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, “knowledge, study, learning”) is the study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures...
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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 any object or record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context. The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange; a unit of account...
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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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A god, as a male deity, contrasts with female deities, or "goddesses". While the term 'goddess' specifically refers to a female deity, the plural 'gods' can be applied to all gods collectively, regardless of gender.
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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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A camel is an even-toed ungulate within the genus Camelus, bearing distinctive fatty deposits known as humps on its back. There are two species of camel: Dromedary, or one-humped camels, which are native to Arabia and other parts of the Middle East,...
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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 term used to describe the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include old age, predation, malnutrition, disease, suicide, murder and accidents or trauma...
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So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.
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“We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god…is not helping him today.”
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"Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times,” says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage. “I have died before.”
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“Commander, you and your Stepsons are always welcome here. This fuss is not our doing. I saw the body. There’s no sign of…murder on her, but sometimes girls just…die.”
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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 the processes by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved. Encoding allows information that is from the outside world to reach our senses in the forms of chemical and physical stimuli. In this first stage we must...
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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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Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give...
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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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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 ( /ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek rejuvenation of their nation based on commitment to an organic national community where its individuals are united together as one people in national...
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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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Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society. Innovation differs from invention in that innovation refers to the use of a new idea...
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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. Co-created by Phyllis Webb and William A. Young, the show premiered in 1965 under the title The Best Ideas You'll Hear Tonight. It is currently hosted by Paul Kennedy and is...
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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 in philosophy is the human value or situation to act according to one's will without being held up by the power of others. From a philosophical point of view, it can be defined as the capacity to determine your own choices. It can be defined...
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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, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks,...
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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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Education, scholars
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The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
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