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Deliberation. The act of examining ones bread to determine which s

Deliberation. The act of examining ones bread to determine which side it is buttered on. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If youre friendly then everybody else seems to be friendly too. – David R. Hawkins

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A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Two things fill the heart with renewed and increasing awe and reverence the more often and the more steadily that they are meditated on: the starry skies above me and the moral law inside me. – Immanuel Kant

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Reflection makes men cowards. – William Hazlitt

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. – Hu Shih

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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. – Ayn Rand

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