Filtering out extraneous information is one of the basic functions of our consciousness.
~ Barry Schwartz
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Author Archives: Louis Feuerbach
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The funniest things are the forbidden.
~ Mark Twain
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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
~ Marcel Proust
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If you fail to honor people, they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when her work is done, her aims fulfilled, they will all say, “We did this ourselves.”
~ Lao Zi
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.
~ Lao Zi
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We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us.
~ Marcel Proust
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Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
~ Confucius
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There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
~ Marcel Proust
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The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.
~ Milan Kundera
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