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"Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that."
"To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin."
"Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?"
"Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness"
"Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish."
"Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?"
"Never give up and don't ask why because every situation does not need an answer. I'm a firm believer that I don't worry about anything I can't control."
"The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile."
"It never does much good to find out why you can't; put your effort into what you can do."
"Because others cannot vibrate in your experience, they cannot affect the outcome of your experience. They can hold their opinions, but unless their opinion affects your opinion, their opinion matters not at all. A million people could be pushing against you, and it would not negatively affect you unless you push back. They are affecting what happens in their experience. They are affecting their point of attraction - but it does not affect you unless you push against them."
"Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth."
"I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments."
"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."
"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
"I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers."
"Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair."
"I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me."
"Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge"
"The investor has the benefit of the stock market's daily and changing appraisal of his holdings, 'for whatever that appraisal may be worth', and, second, that the investor is able to increase or decrease his investment at the market's daily figure - 'if he chooses'. Thus the existence of a quoted market gives the investor certain options which he does not have if his security is unquoted. But it does not impose the current quotation on an investor who prefers to take his idea of value from some other source."
"There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it."
