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When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by effort...

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Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his s...

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We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and alo...

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All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a ...

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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationa...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate ca...

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The job of the United Nations is to grow more flowers, more smiles and more beauty on the earth. Onc...

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Amit RayPeace on the Earth A Nuclear Weapons Free World

The old disease, thought Rubashov. Revolutionaries should not think through other people's minds. Or...

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In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others ...

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Blaise PascalThe Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Huma...

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By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

[Tolstoy] denounced [many historians'] lamentable tendency to simplify. The experts stumble onto a b...

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Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.

A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exce...

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David HumeAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Situations seem to happen to people, but in reality, they unfold from deeper karmic causes. The univ...

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Deepak ChopraThe Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause...

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