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What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in read more
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind read more
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you read more
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find read more
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be read more
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then read more
It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.