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• A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

  Michael Douglas

  Money, Stupid, Greed

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• Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fall, Soul, Depth

  Sigmund Freud (1963). “Character and culture”

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• No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one another; and the first step towards that much-needed charity is to look charitably and kindly upon the religious convictions of others. Nay more, to understand that not only should we be charitable, but positively helpful to each other, however different our religious ideas and convictions may be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Ideas, Different

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1111, Manonmani Publishers

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• To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.

  Chris Brogan

  Names, Marketing, Twenties

  Chris Brogan, Julien Smith (2010). “Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust”, p.180, John Wiley & Sons

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• The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Writing, Successful

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• Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware of what he is saying, of what nonsense he is talking. If you are wise, this will be the first realization: life cannot be understood. Understanding is impossible. Only this much can be understood - that understanding is impossible.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Wise, Talking

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• As you become multi-sensory, you begin to see yourself as a soul first and a personality second. You begin to experience yourself as more than a body and more than a mind. and the circumstances around you as meaningful and designed for your spiritual growth.

  Gary Zukav

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Experience Yourself

  Gary Zukav (2012). “Soul to Soul: Communications From the Heart”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

  William Ames

  Men, Grace, Soul

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

  Euripides

  Crazy, Mad

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• All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Destiny, Men, Discovery

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.437, Wildside Press LLC

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• Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

  Sherman Glenn Finesilver

  Failure, Recovery, Remember You

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• Being, not doing, is my first joy.

  Theodore Roethke

  Joy

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.316, Anchor

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• Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'.

  William James

  Science, Expression, Talking

  The Principles of Psychology vol. 1, ch. 9 (1890).

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• Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

  Wally Amos

  Life, Success, Cheer

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• The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Journey, Soul

  Sam Keen (1995). “Hymns to an unknown God: awakening the spirit in everyday life”, Bantam

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• The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Lying, Real, Consciousness

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.

  Richard Baxter

  Death, Christian, Blessing

  Richard Baxter (1660). “A Treatise of Selfdenyall”, p.223

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• The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Energy, Causes

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• [Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Plato, Real, Science

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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• Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in the fire and it hurt,"), which is probably the earliest kind we learn. Then there's the logically convincing, which we probably come to first through maths, in the context of Pythagoras's theorem or something similar, and which, if we first encounter it at exactly the right moment, bursts on our minds like sunrise with the whole universe playing a great chord of C Major.

  Philip Pullman

  Hurt, Math, Science

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• In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Stars, Science

  "Les misérables".

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• Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating in the world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must be as it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the points of nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised and sublimated in beauty and truth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Nature, Truth

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• You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.

  Linus Pauling

  Science, Discovery, Ideas

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• Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

  Franz Kafka

  Evil, Deception, Trying

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

  T. S. Eliot

  Funny, Work, Reading

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