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Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.
Positive thinking is a much derided concept, only because if it is not followed by positive action it leads to nothing.
The more emotional you are, the more emotionally manipulated you shall become.
We formulate our questions based on the answers we want to hear.
Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
There are no new ideas. All ideas coexist in a universal pool of consciousness. There are only new wavelengths revealed in certain spectrums of understanding by a miraculous anomaly that some call a flash of genius.
Reality is nothing but each individual's conceptual perceptions of their environment. Life is what you make it out to be.
The emotion of admiration is the direct product of the notion of inspiration combined with the devotion of elaboration.
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis"
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
I find it much more gratifying to leave offense rather than take it.
Blessed are the weird people--poets, misfits, writers, mystics...painters & troubadours--for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.
You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity
"Be truly free. The purpose of one’s existence can never be found by micromanaging the details in life”
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
Everyone is a potential ###&@#@#--in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill--though not the will to kill.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. Wilson was so sick that he looked guilty.
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