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• To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards of deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death.

  Jules Henry

  Thinking, Deep Thought, Rewards

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• Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change

  Richard G. Scott

  Friendship, Change, Bible

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• What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge.

  Jean Piaget

  Roots, Different, Next Level

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• Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'.

  Pierre Boulez

  Musical, Technique, Development

  Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.143, Harvard University Press

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• Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Journey, Stories

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• Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Waiting, Feelings

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• Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Eye, Doctrine, Tools

  Jane Hirshfield (2015). “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World”, p.57, Knopf

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• One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.

  Alexander Fleming

  Medicine, Dawn, World

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• Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Simple, Needs, Simple Living

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• When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Writing, Horror, Triviality

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• The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Passion, Keys

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.154, Penguin

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• The idea of going to school to be an art critic is a very crazy idea. I educated myself in public, which is a very painful way to learn - by writing and then discovering that I don't know what the f**k I'm talking about. But you remember the lessons vividly.

  Jonathan Santlofer

  Art, Crazy, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You have to understand who you are and figure out a way to communicate it. It might be in a different industry, but it's about what pumps the blood through your veins, what makes you excited, what pushes your buttons. And then discovering the best way to communicate that, no matter how big or small; it's what you stand for, what you believe in, and what reflects who you are.

  Andre Agassi

  Success, Business, Believe

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• Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings.

  Fernand Pouillon

  Lying, Roots, Feelings

  Fernand Pouillon (1970). “The stones of Le Thoronet”, Jonathan Cape

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• Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Discovery, People

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 22, 2015

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• I think record stores play a huge part in discovering new music. When I was growing up I would spend hours going through all the bins looking for something new that seemed interesting to me and that could relate to what I was listening to at the time. This is why I want to support National Record Store Day.

  Joe Principe

  Growing Up, Thinking, Play

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• This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value of man to man. The whole world is discovering that all mankind is one and that the unity of man is real – not just an abstract idea. Mankind is beginning to discover that the hurt of any man hurts every man, and, conversely, the uplift of any man uplifts every man

  Walter Russell

  Uplifting, Hurt, Real

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• I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

  Alan Lee

  Rocks, Rivers, Drawing

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• The truth can set us free, but only if we're always in the process of discovering it.

  Irwin Kula

  Growth, Process, Ifs

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• Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Gay, Later In Life, Happened

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• You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.

  Charles Kuralt

  Kindness, Long, People

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• In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. [] there simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.

  Betsy Lerner

  Lying, Book, People

  Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Joy, Anticipation, Possibility

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• Love is scary, like anything else, whether you're falling in love, whether you're discovering love in something else...if you're really going to jump off the cliff, when you meet somebody that you love you're going to jump off that cliff, you've got to give them everything. And when you have a kid, it's on a much greater level.

  Kate Hudson

  Falling In Love, Love You, Kids

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• If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.

  Prince Charles

  Ends, Chuck, Ifs

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