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Ralph Ellison Novelist, Essayist
Attitude

"Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood."

Attitude Growing Up Our Society
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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
Attitude

"These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply."

Hands Attitude Greek
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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
Attitude

"My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that's kinda how I approach everything."

Should Attitude Get Better
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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
Attitude

"I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band."

Moving Attitude Ipods
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Attitude

"Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time."

Attitude Problem Answers
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live."

Eye Attitude Fear
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Attitude

"In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say."

Dream Attitude Drama
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Attitude

"A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club."

Men Reality Attitude
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Attitude

"The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature."

Attitude Boys Healthy
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Attitude

"No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions."

Attitude Atmosphere West
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Attitude

"One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind."

Thinking Real Attitude
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things."

Should Attitude Psychedelic
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to belief. Belief always being seen as a kind of trap, because if you belief something you are forever precluded from believing its opposite."

Believe Attitude Opposites
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact that they bring the mystery to the surface as an individual experience. In other words, you do not understand the psychedelic experience by getting a report from Time magazine or even the Economist. You only understand the psychedelic experience by having it."

Attitude Facts Hallucinogens
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"There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books."

Writing Book Attitude
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"In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language, and I mean including America and England, at some time wrote for Punch. Jerome K. Jerome, who wrote Three Men In A Boat, I loved. I was very impressed when I read a piece by Mark Twain in Punch, and realized that despite the fact that they were on different continents, Jerome K. Jerome and Mark Twain had the same kind of laconic, laid-back, "The human race is damn stupid, but quite interesting" attitude. They were almost talking with the same voice."

Mean Attitude Stupid
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