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By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of read more
By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, read more
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely read more
People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.
Perceptions are real. If you're playing to win, they have to be favourable. Your ability to persuade people to listen read more
Perceptions are real. If you're playing to win, they have to be favourable. Your ability to persuade people to listen to you, understand what you are saying, and support you, will determine whether you win or lose.
It's good to shut up sometimes.
It's good to shut up sometimes.
If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he read more
If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking -- one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.
The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.
The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
