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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
 
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
 
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing.
 
There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.
 
Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.
 
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
 
Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.
 
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
 
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. 
 
Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.
 
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
 
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. 
 
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
 
We never arrive at fundamental propositions in the course of our investigation; we get to the boundary of language which stops us from asking further questions. We don't get to the bottom of things, but reach a point where we can go no further, where we cannot ask further questions.
 
We can analyze the melody, but not in independent parts. That would be destrucion of the melody.
 
What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.
 
Do not take life too seriously. You will not get out of it alive.
 
Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.
 
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
 
When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.
 
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