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"In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted."
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"How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?"
"Open up your heart enables expansion of the dimensions of the conscious states."
"The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own."
"I was not so old that I would deny my own senses."
"Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life."
"Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them."
"Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-- and have it repeated to us-- over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore."
"But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying?'Because,' Morrie continued, 'most of us walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.'And facing death changes all that?'Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently.'He sighed. 'Learn how to die, and you learn how to live."
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"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."
"When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man."
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning."
"Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement."
"There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle."
"It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious people considered them an attempt to evade the will of God. It was pointed out, however, that when God extracted Adam's rib He put him into a deep sleep. This proved that anesthetics are all right for men; women, however, ought to suffer, because of the curse of Eve."
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