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8ab662b
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People are never able to outperform their self-image.
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self-esteem
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John C. Maxwell |
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82d4877
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The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.
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Phillip C. McGraw |
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dcccca0
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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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802e8e4
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It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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d066ea0
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The leader's Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.
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John C. Maxwell |
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c3751ed
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It's better to prepare than to repair.
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John C. Maxwell |
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5c796c9
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Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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fe08efb
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Master Richard!" Hunch's voice was not loud, but it expressed volumes of scandalized disapproval. Mairelon paused and looked up. "What is it?" "You ain't going to just--" Hunch stopped and looked at Kim. "Not with 'er standing there!" "Oh, is that all that's bothering you?" Mairelon looked at Kim and grinned. "Turn your back, child; you're offending Hunch's proprieties." Kim flushed, as much from surprise as embarrassment, and turned away. ..
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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a03bdf1
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Bowman was aware of some changes in his behavior patterns; it would have been absurd to expect anything else in the circumstances. He could no longer tolerate silence; except when he was sleeping, or talking over the circuit to Earth, he kept the ship's sound system running at almost painful loudness. / At first, needing the companionship of the human voice, he had listened to classical plays--especially the works of Shaw, Ibsen, and Shakes..
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science-fiction
space
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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2e052f1
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And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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0db1d8e
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They would never know how lucky they had been. For a lifetime, mankind had achieved as much happiness as any race can ever know. It had been the Golden Age. But gold was also the color of sunset, of autumn: and only Karellen's ears could catch the first wailings of the winter storms.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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cd3e91e
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Life really is amazing, and when you're about to lose it, you finally notice that you never really took it in before. And you realize the sheer magnitude of what it involves, from your first kiss to your hundredth slice of pizza. I guess that's why those tears drifted down my cheeks.
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Ryan C. Thomas |
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31f331e
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And you know, when it comes to a long-term, committed relationship: Love is not enough. There are issues of honor, respect, mutuality, sacrifice, acceptance, supportiveness, similarity of life values and morality, to name only a few. They, too, don't come without struggling and striving, but, oh, are they worth it!
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Laura C. Schlessinger |
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I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.
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salvation
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R. C. Sproul |
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bac4d56
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When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.
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John C. Maxwell |
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1088198
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f you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only just scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things.
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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dedd61b
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You mean I'm going to have to do a spell in front of a bunch of toffs?" Kim said, outraged that no one had mentioned this before she had agreed to this come-out. "Yes, exactly", Lady Wendall said serenely. "You and Richard have plenty of time to design something that will reflect your unique background, as well as demonstrating your abilities as a wizard. I am looking forward to seeing what you decide upon." "I could pick everyone's pockets..
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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11df887
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If you're going to be rude, do it for a reason and get something from it.
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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dfb6cc7
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You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion.... The heart comes before the head.
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John C. Maxwell |
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23b57ec
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He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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b378a75
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If we both believe that we have nothing to learn from the other, is it not obvious that we will both be wrong?
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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ab27954
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For the last century, almost all top political appointments [on the planet Earth] had been made by random computer selection from the pool of individuals who had the necessary qualifications. It had taken the human race several thousand years to realize that there were some jobs that should never be given to the people who volunteered for them, especially if they showed too much enthusiasm. As one shrewed political commentator had remarked:..
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politics
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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a2ce04a
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We - as readers or writers, tellers or listeners - understand each other, we share knowledge of the structures of our myths, we comprehend the logic of symbols, largely because we have access to the same swirl of story. We have only to reach out into the air and pluck a piece of it.
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Thomas C. Foster |
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98737ff
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People dont care what you know until they know what you care
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John C. Maxwell |
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35e04e2
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If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.
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John C. Maxwell |
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c24e0ab
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.
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philosophy
science
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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545b1e9
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ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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1febdce
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In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction
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sci-fi
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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96963bb
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Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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23b31f2
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He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.
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plausibility
wrong
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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4ed2d5c
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A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.
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John C. Maxwell |
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a2cd1fc
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Sang: "Miss you." Silas: "7."
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C. L. Stone |
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man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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ddca407
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Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that th..
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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f307885
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Many people view leadership the same way they view success, hoping to go as far as they can, to climb the ladder, to achieve the highest position possible for their talent. But contrary to conventional thinking, I believe the bottom line in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others. That is achieved by serving others and adding value to their lives.
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John C. Maxwell |
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e87d54b
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I always try to remember that I am a work in progress. When I maintain that perspective, I realize that I don't have to be perfect. I don't have to have it all together. I don't need to try to have all the answers. And I don't need to learn everything in a day. When I make a mistake, it's not because I'm a failure or worthless. I just didn't do something right because I still haven't improved enough in some part of the process. And that mot..
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John C. Maxwell |
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b2d8d80
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One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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6697ff4
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I am using the word as a scientist means it: a set of ideas so well established by observations and physical models that it is essentially indistinguishable from fact. That is different from the colloquial use that means "guess." To a scientist, you can bet your life on a theory. Remember, gravity is "just a theory" too."
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theory
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Philip C. Plait |
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73981ec
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Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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b948a67
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Comparing yourself to others is really just a needless distraction. The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday. You do that by focusing on what you can do today to improve and grow.
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John C. Maxwell |
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ddb9387
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others
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great-people
small-people
talking-too-much
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John C. Maxwell |
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072019c
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I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda that it is. A positive response might be, "Oh good! I love a mystery. Let's see if we can solve this one, too. Do you have any ideas?"
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philosophy
theology
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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4c3ad2f
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I find that some philosophers think that my whole approach to qualia is not playing fair. I don't respect the standard rules of philosophical thought experiments. "But Dan, your view is so counterintuitive!" No kidding. That's the whole point. Of course it is counterintuitive. Nowhere is it written that the true materialist theory of consciousness should be blandly intuitive. I have all along insisted that it may be very counterintuitive. T..
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qualia
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Daniel C. Dennett |