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If You Do Not Know, it is Useless to Explain, Because You Would Not Understand”__nickc

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Queen Of Spades

Anyone can be a fool, but the one recognizes it and admits it is on the path to wisdom.

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Charlie Jane Anders

Knowledge is justice

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If there’s one thing every good novelist understands, it’s that our inner world is unreliable and yet there’s no getting beyond it. Every sense is subject to deception, including the moral sense. What seems at first like the hard surface of spiritual reality is really fathomless when you dive down into it. There is no bottom. We neve know anything for sure. (p. xvi)

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Manish Kejriwal

Stop saying that you have done it for someone, Because never in your life you do things for other’s, which means every single thing you do in your life, you do it only and only for yourself, even loving your child, even feeding you dog, you do it because you get something out of it.

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Calm is good, passivity not to much. Calm is always a basic inner attitude that makes it possible to concentrate and act purposefully. But passivity suggest an element of denial. Passive people refuse to take initiatives and to exploit stimuli. They sit and wait – without strength, defiant or rigid from shock – in whatever their situation is and prefer to suffer considerably from their plight rather than trying to change something. This includes boredom and even bad relationships.

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