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"I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth."
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"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."
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Personal Development
"There's none so blind as they that won't see."
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Personal Development
"Look around and you will see what others are not seeing."
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Personal Development
"Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?"
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Personal Development
"The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man."
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Personal Development
"Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky."
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Personal Development
"When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren't showing you."
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Personal Development
"Wisdom gives us the understanding that God has given us commandments for our benefit."
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"Follow reason but don't ignore that gut feeling. We create reasons with our limited knowledge and experience, but gut feelings often come from universal knowledge."
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Personal Development
"The eye of judgment sees at a distance what it refuses to see in it's own reflection."
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"Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth."You don't seem to agree."I don't know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understandinghow truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person."
Philosophy
"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"
Philosophy
"This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which were immediately important, and by refusing to believe what my neighbors believed."
Focus
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Earth
"Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you."
Environment
"A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health."
Society
"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."
Talent
"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
History
"And I am now compelled to wonder if wisdom has ever existed or can ever exist. Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine?"
Wisdom
"The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought."
War
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