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What you have to do, if you get caught in this gumption trap of value rigidity, is slow down - you're going to have to slow down anyway whether you want to or not - but slow down deliberately and go over ground that you've been over before to see if the things you thought were important were really important and to . . . well . . . just stare at the machine. There's nothing wrong with that. Just live with it for a while. Watch it the way yo..
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What had to be seen was that the Chris I missed so badly was not an object but a pattern, and that although the pattern included the flesh and blood of Chris, that was not all there was to it. The pattern was larger than Chris and myself, and related us in ways that neither of us understood completely and neither of us was in complete control of. Now Chris's body, which was a part of that larger pattern, was gone. But the larger pattern rem..
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partisan of the governor, said angrily that the legislature would prevent the school from losing its accreditation. Phaedrus asked how. The student said they would post police to prevent it. Phaedrus pondered this for a while, then realized the enormity of the student's misconception of what accreditation was all about. That night, for the next day's lecture, he wrote out his defense of what he was doing. This was the Church of Reason lectu..
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The real University, he said, has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries and receives no material dues. The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries and which does not exist at any specific location.
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Lo que me gustaria hacer ahora es usar ese tiempo para conversar sobre algunas cosas que se me vienen a la mente. Vamos con tanta prisa la mayor parte del tiempo que nunca tenemos muchas oportunidades de charlar. El resultado es una especie de interminable superficialidad cotidiana, una monotonia que deja a la persona preguntandose, anos mas tarde, adonde se fue el tiempo y lamentando que se haya ido. Ahora que tenemos algo de tiempo, y lo ..
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We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get a chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day to day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.
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But in the secondary America we've been through, of back roads, and Chinaman's ditches, and Appaloosa horses, and sweeping mountain ranges, and meditative thoughts, and kids with pinecones and bumblebees and open sky above us mile after mile after mile, all through that, what was real, what was around us dominated. And so there wasn't much feeling of loneliness.
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duller than ditchwater. Yah
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The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.
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Birisi nankorse ve siz ona nankor oldugunu soylerseniz, en fazla ona bir ad takmis olursunuz ama hicbir seyi cozmus olmazsiniz.
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You just sit and stare and think, and search randomly for new information, and go away and come back again, and after a while the unseen factors start to emerge.
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If one accepts the premise that all knowledge comes to us through our senses, Hume says, then one must logically conclude that both 'Nature' and 'Nature's laws' are creations of our own imagination.
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poisonous twentieth-century attitude. When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.
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To the untrained eye ego-climbing and selfless climbing may appear identical. Both kinds of climbers place one foot in front of the other. Both breathe in and out at the same rate. Both stop when tired. Both go forward when rested. But what a difference! The ego-climber is like an instrument that's out of adjustment. He puts his foot down an instant too soon or too late. He's likely to miss a beautiful passage of sunlight through the trees...
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The number of rational hypotheses that can explain any given phenomenon is infinite.
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I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.
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All this is just an analogy.
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I am Phaedrus, that is who I am, and they are going to destroy me for speaking the Truth.
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Who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?
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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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Good is a noun rather than an adjective.
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