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We use judgements as principlesof judegement.
 
If you ask for something you have to say "Please", if you want to get something you have to please.
 
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
 
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
 
I defeat my enemies when I make them my friends.
 
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
 
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. The dynamics of the natural world are complex, interconnected, and often nonlinear, while human thought and understanding tend to be linear and fragmented. This mismatch leads to misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and unintended consequences, giving rise to many of the significant challenges we face. In this context, it becomes evident that psychic processes, including consciousness, thoughts, emotions, feelings, and motivations, are deeply conditioned by the fundamental principles of nature and biological processes. Our ways of thinking and perceiving are inherently influenced by the intricate web of life and the physical world around us. Therefore, to truly understand the nature of our psychic processes, we must recognize and appreciate the profound impact of the natural world on the human mind.
 
Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't report it. The thief spends less than my wife.
 
The past isn't dead. It isn't even past.
 
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
 
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. 
 
I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
 
Countries with high levels of atheism are . . . the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth they devote to social welfare programs and the percentage they give in aid to the developing world.
 
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?

 
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
 
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
 
There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.
 
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?
 
To find out actually what takes place when you die you must die. This isn't a joke. You must die - not physically but psychologically, inwardly, die to the things you have cherished and to the things you are bitter about. If you have died to one of your pleasures, the smallest or the greatest, naturally, without any enforcement or argument, then you will know what it means to die. To die is to have a mind that is completely empty of itself, empty of its daily longing, pleasure; and agonies. Death is a renewal, a mutation, in which thought does not function at all because thought is old. When there is death there is something totally new. Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
 
Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
 
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