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0b84a12
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To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart.
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John C. Maxwell |
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73d679b
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Nothing will make a better impression on your leader than your ability to manage yourself. If your leader must continually expend energy managing you, then you will be perceived as someone who drains time and energy. If you manage yourself well, however, your boss will see you as someone who maximizes opportunities and leverages personal strengths. That will make you someone your leader turns to when the heat is on.
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John C. Maxwell |
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e56b821
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Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people are unwilling to do. --JOHN C. MAXWELL
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John C. Maxwell |
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c48c2a9
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I didn't plan to become an atheist. I didn't even want to become an atheist. It's just that I had no choice. If I'm being honest with myself.
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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d2316be
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As the comedian Emo Phillips once said, "When I was a child, I used to pray to God for a bicycle. But then I realized that God doesn't work in that way--so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness!"
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. --Anonymous
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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5585c76
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You don't understand," Mairelon said dully. "Kim doesn't want to marry a toff." Was that what was bothering him? "Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nod cocks!" Kim said with as much indignation as she could muster. "I was talking about the marquis, not about you!" Mairelon's eyes kindled. "Then you would?" "You've whiddled it," Kim informed him. As he kissed her again, she heard Mrs. Lowe murmur, "Mind your..
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love
marriage
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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7a631f1
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Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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adeeb28
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Four of us,' said Morwen. The cats yowled. 'Yes, I know, and of course you're coming, but you can't carry a bucket of soapy water, so for the purposes of this discussion it doesn't matter,' she told them. The cats gave her an affronted look, turned their backs, and began making indignant little noises at each other.
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humor
morwen
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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8620862
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Because politics is the science of the possible, it only appeals to second-rate minds. The first raters only interested in the impossible
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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54100c8
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Don't believe anything I've told you--merely because I said it.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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1d050e0
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The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.
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mind
projection
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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2c511a1
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They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.
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theology
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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30ba699
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Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting. It was bad enough when they were motionless; but when they started to move, and sympathetic vibrations set in, it was more than any warm-blooded male should be asked to take. Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did thi..
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rendezvous-with-rama
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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f407bff
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Turing had pointed out that, if one could carry out a prolonged conversation with a machine--whether by typewriter or microphones was immaterial--without being able to distinguish between its replies and those that a man might give, then the machine was thinking, by any sensible definition of the word. Hal could pass the Turing test with ease. The
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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72816f2
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There were other thinkers, Bowman also found, who held even more exotic views. They did not believe that really advanced beings would possess organic bodies at all. Sooner or later, as their scientific knowledge progressed, they would get rid of the fragile, disease-and-accident-prone homes that Nature had given them, and which doomed them to inevitable death. They would replace their natural bodies as they wore out--or perhaps even before ..
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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252ff11
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But at least we have answered one ancient question. We are not alone. The stars will never again be the same to us.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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The rise of science, which with monotonous regularity refuted the cosmologies of the prophets and produced miracles which they could never match, eventually destroyed all these faiths. It did not destroy the awe, nor the reverence and humility, which all intelligent beings felt as they contemplated the stupendous universe in which they found themselves. What it did weaken, and finally obliterate, were the countless religions each of which c..
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a whole universe lay at his fingertips, but the fraction of it he could explore in an entire lifetime was so negligible that he was sometimes overwhelmed with despair.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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d94e35d
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Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it may be, better than anyone else. Of course, it's an ideal we don't all achieve. But in this modern world the great thing is to have an ideal. Achieving it is considerably less important.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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1f36a5c
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Man was, therefore, still a prisoner on his own planet. It was much fairer, but a much smaller, planet than it had been a century before. When the Overlords abolished war and hunger and disease, they had also abolished adventure.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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8f6a5ac
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no one of intelligence resents the inevitable.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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4fc3417
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I kept waiting for the book to appear. The wait grew more frustrating when my son entered school and was taught the same things I had been taught, beliefs I knew had long been sharply questioned. Since nobody else appeared to be writing the book, I finally decided to try it myself. Besides, I was curious to learn more. The book you are holding is the result.
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Charles C. Mann |
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73d651a
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Much of this world vanished after Columbus, swept away by disease and subjugation. So thorough was the erasure that within a few generations neither conqueror nor conquered knew that this world had existed.
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Charles C. Mann |
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f4b18cd
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Attitude is one of the most contagious qualities a human being possesses.
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John C. Maxwell |
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5f38897
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Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.
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John C. Maxwell |
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0a52f75
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A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
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John C. Maxwell |
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3223c34
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Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.
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John C. Maxwell |
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If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.
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John C. Maxwell |
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2ad4610
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No, none of these things are the key. When it comes right down to it, I know of only one factor that separates those who consistently shine from those who don't: The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. Nothing else has the same kind of impact on people's ability to achieve and to accomplish whatever their minds and hearts desire.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
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John C. Maxwell |
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86e643e
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Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.
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John C. Maxwell |
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78e87cd
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Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections.
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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There is a species of primate in South America more gregarious than most other mammals, with a curious behavior.The members of this species often gather in groups, large and small, and in the course of their mutual chattering , under a wide variety of circumstances, they are induced to engage in bouts of involuntary, convulsive respiration, a sort of loud, helpless, mutually reinforcing group panting that sometimes is so severe as to incapa..
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humor
laughter
phenomenology
popular-psychology
popular-science
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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0bbd36e
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In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability.
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free-will
indeterminism
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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f09903e
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The fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dispute among scientists. It demonstrates its power every day, contributing crucially to the explanation of planet-sized facts of geology and meteorology, through middle-sized facts of ecology and agronomy, down to the latest microscopic facts of genetic engineering. It unifies all of biology and the history of our planet into a..
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darwinism
dennett
evidence
evolution
evolutionary-biology
science
scientific-theory
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling the story we tell others - and ourselves - about who we are.
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self
story
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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6b9b088
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The young man is currently standing in the hallway, dripping on the handmade silk rug that the Emperor of the Indies presented to His Majesty's grandmother. He is insisting on speaking with His Majesty." "It's a very ugly rug," Mendanbar said. "That's why we put it in the entry hall." --
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humor
king
mendanbar
rug
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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5feec69
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Kim lifted the lid. Inside, on a small pillow covered in white velvet, lay a gold sunburst the size of her thunbnail, hung on a delicate chain. It looked a little like the first spell she had ever cast, a small explosion of light re-created in metal, and she was not really surprised to find the card with the single word "Mairelon" scrawled across it."
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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70a45bf
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Really, Agatha, you might have told me." "Told you what?" Mairelon said. "That my ward was once a street thief? I didn't think it was a secret." "A street thief?" Letitia wrinkled her nose and looked at Kim with disfavor. "How horrid." "I think it is the most romantic story I have ever heard", Miss Matthews said with conviction."
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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The Marquis of Harsfield Lord Franton, arrived after you left." Lady Endall said with some satisfaction. "He said he wished to be presented to Kim, and was quite dissapointed to find she was not there." "Harsfield? He must be nearly eighty." Mairelon said, frowning. "What does he want with Kim?" "No, no, Richard, you're thinking of the fourth Marquis of Harsfield," Lady Wendall said. "He died last year; it is the fifth Marquis who was askin..
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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eba037e
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If you brought me out driving just so you could insult me-" "Oh, not just to insult you."
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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c7e3788
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After this, anything might happen. Anything at all. - The End
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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e7a5262
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No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, you just can't help noticing when a cloud of mosquitoes comes for you like you're their first good meal since last fall.
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Patricia C. Wrede |