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"The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic."
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"The mind is a neural computer."
"The concern of your brain is not to see the actual nature of reality, but to represent the reality to you in such a way that suits your needs."
"A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer."
"Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them."
"You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal, you tune in different frequencies."
"A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountainside, a flickering fire and its uncountable ashes, and the many faces of a dead man at a wake. I have no idea how many stars he saw in the sky."
"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."
"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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"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment."
"Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night."
"Mr. Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf."
"They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them."
"It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own."
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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