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"I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief."
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"When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished."
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"Serenity within the chaos of life is there to be discovered, just look within yourself for it."
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"The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck."
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"Be who you are longing to be, practice thinking of yourself as the person of your dreams."
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"The Lord states, 'What can one do to go to moksha? He can go if he attains the right belief of the Self; or if he attains the grace of the Gnani Purush'."
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"I wholeheartedly believe in the power and truths of love and kindness."
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"There are certain moments in life of open-minded people...which really make them hard not to believe in the existence of heaven."
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"In response to my father-in-law's view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He had merely been spouting his belief, a conviction that would remain unchanged for all eternity."
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"You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell."
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"I do have faith in humanity but I don't have faith in humans."
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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
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"I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe."
Ideas
"I think Veblen had an interest in logic."
Interest
"I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy."
Education
"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."
Logic
"It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church."
Work
"I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton."
Post
"And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished."
Church
"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know."
Mathematicians
"In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine."
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