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Madeleine L'Engle

"We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually."

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"We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually."

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"The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day."

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"When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure."

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"One lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity."

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"When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person."

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"The subconscious mind does not care about what we consciously call reality."

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"A single thought can shift your entire world."

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"Unwise application of knowledge is dangerous."

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"They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse."
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"Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other harshly and were cold of heart."
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