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"What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me?"
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Personal Development
"On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it."
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Personal Development
"Use 'Why?' to help you follow the breadcrumbs back to the source of the problem."
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Personal Development
"It isn't what you don't know that's the problem. It is what you're unwilling to ask."
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Personal Development
"If you want to be sure of unusual thing such as aliens or UFOs, then you have to think about it from an unusual way of thinking."
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Personal Development
"The simplest questions are the most difficult."
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Personal Development
"I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."
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Personal Development
"Challenge everything for the Truth. Only those who challenge everything for the Truth are the blessed ones."
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Personal Development
"For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize."
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Personal Development
"Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know-the Church does neither."
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"I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her."
Growth
"What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch?"
Philosophy
"These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening."
Social
"Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love.I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart."
Loss
"My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described."
Emotion
"For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart."
Ethics
"How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmony with the ups and downs of those notes. What kind of notes both elevate and cast down, exalt and crush?"
Art
"I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it...I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses."
Nature
"Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?"
Faith
"You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it."
Acceptance
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