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• You may cure yourself of a depression by forcing yourself to perform, in rapid order and with excruciating concentration, half a dozen or so unpleasant chores, especially if they have long been postponed. This is a kind of homeopathic purgative, a treatment of like with like.

  Robert Grudin

  Long, Half, Dozen

  Robert Grudin (1982). “Time and the art of living”, Harpercollins

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• What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order of consciousness in which they exercise their smartness or their lack of it.

  Robert Kegan

  Smart, Mean, Exercise

  Robert Kegan (1995). “In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• The first measn by which He draws is affinity, that affinity which brings creatures of the same species together, and like to its like. With this cord of affinity He drew men to the Godhead, Whom He always resembles. In order that God may draw more to Himself, and forget His wrath.

  Meister Eckhart

  Men, Wrath, Together

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Within itself the soul sees all things more truly than as they exist in different things outside itself. And the more it goes out unto other things in order to know them, the more it enters into itself in order to know itself.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Soul, Different, All Things

  "Nicholas of Cusa On learned ignorance: a translation and an appraisal of De docta ignorantia". Book by Nicholas of Cusa, translated by Jasper Hopkins, 1981.

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• It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit of fraternity perhaps, also by its secrecy began at an early date to ask to be accepted as members of the order; hence Accepted Masons. How far back the custom of admitting such men to the Lodge goes is not clear, but hints of it are discernable in the oldest documents of the order.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Men, Symbolism, Admitting

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.138, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one can tell, through there may have been. No matter; man mixed thought and worship with his work, and as he cut his altar stones and fitted them together he thought out a faith by which to live.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Cutting, Men, Together

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Party, Writing, Paper

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• The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.

  Wang Yangming

  Running, Men, Creating

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• ... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Wind, Needs, World

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• Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Use, World, Littles

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• The functionaries of public power rarely strengthen in their dispositions to abridge it, and an unorganized call for timely amendment is not likely to prevail against an organized opposition to it. We are always told that things are going on well; Why change them? 'Chi sta bene, no si mueve,' said the Italian, 'let him who stands well, stand still.' This is true; and I verily believe they would go on well with us under an absolute monarch, while our present character remains, of order, industry and love of peace, and restrained as he would be, by the proper spirit of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Character, Italian

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.209, Cambridge University Press

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• Modern government has become a universal transfer agency that utilizes the political process for distributing vast measures of income and wealth. It preys on millions of victims in order to allocate valuable goods and services to its beneficiaries.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Agency, Government, Political

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• This we must say, that everything is economics and economic interest as mere satisfaction of physical needs had, have and always will have a subordinate role in a normal human, that beyond this sphere must be differentiated from an order of higher values, political , spiritual and heroic.

  Julius Evola

  Spiritual, Political, Roles

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• The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another.

  Alfred Adler

  Children, Mind, Fiction

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• I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science. The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Attitude, Believe, Appreciate

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• We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Desire, Needs, May

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• Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Psychics, Skills, Goal

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• It's obviously incredibly important to keep the body fit in order to keep the mind fit, and be able to find time for friends.

  Richard Branson

  Mind, Important, Body

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• If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Reception, Founding

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6454, Delphi Classics

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• In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Oil, Lamps, Burning

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• There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit.

  Elliott Abrams

  Israel, Decision, Way

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• The nation-state is becoming less and less competent to perform its international political tasks... These are some of the reasons pressing us to lead vigorously toward the true building of a new world order.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Nwo, Political, Tasks

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• The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.

  Peter Drucker

  Today, Tomorrow, Relevant

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• I am looking for movies that are actually about something and that are questioning something. Movies that are provocative in some way and I am also looking for roles that I think will force me to grow or learn something about myself or the world in order to play them well.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Play, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.

  William J. Clinton

  Self, People, Economic

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