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"I wake up wondering if I know we're near mountains because of memory or because of something in the air."
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"If there is a wasp in the room, I'd like to be able to see it."
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Personal Development
"It is not possible to know 'Who am I?' by 'doing'. 'Doing' (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, 'Who am I' cannot be known."
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"Don't get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?"
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"God is aware of the hypocrisy in the hearts of men."
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"Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved."
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Personal Development
"Query: How contrive not to waste one's time?Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while.Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth."
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"In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive."
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Personal Development
"God is not coming to fix any nation. The most he could do is to raise up a man or a woman who would take responsibility to fix the nation."
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"Everyone on earth is afraid of losing his/her life, and only a few are afraid of losing their time."
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"Many people in the world have a talent from God, but they do not know him."
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"He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working. His (Korean) friends nod and smile and eat the food they've taken from tins and say no pleasantly."
Knowledge
"The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around."
Philosophy
"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."
Philosophy
"When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it. This seemed to make sense. He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do."
Creativity
"Bill arrives with a grin about something. Sure, he's got some jets for my machine and knows right were they are. I'll have to wait a second though. He's got to close a deal out in back on some Harley parts. I go with him out in a shed in back and see he is selling a whole Harley machine in used parts, except for the frame, which the customer already has. He is selling them all for $125. Not a bad price at all.Coming back I comment, 'He'll know something about motorcycles before he gets those together.'Bill laughs. 'And that's the best way to learn, too."
Learning
"Why should an irrational method work when rational methods were all so rotten? He had an intuitive feeling, growing rapidly, that what he had stumbled on was no small gimmick. It went far beyond. How far, he didn't know."
Intuition
"Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them."
Philosophy
"We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on 'good' rather than on 'time'...."
Journey
"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses."
Knowledge
"Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road... old buildings, old people on a front porch... strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better than the new stuff."
Nostalgia
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