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[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when t
[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we cant tolerate. – William James

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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. – William James

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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. – Niels Bohr

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No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. – Henry Van Dyke

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Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. – Will Durant

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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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When you stop having dreams and ideals – well, you might as well stop altogether. – Marian Anderson

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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

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