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BOUNDARY: In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.
 
To be passive is to let others decide for you. To be aggressive is to decide for others. To be assertive is to decide for yourself.
 
It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.
 
The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world everything is as it is, and everything happens as it does happen: in it no value exists—and if it did exist, it would have no value. If there is any value that does have value, it must lie outside the whole sphere of what happens and is the case. For all that happens and is the case is accidental. What makes it non-accidental cannot lie within the world, since if it did it would itself be accidental. It must lie outside the world.
 
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
 
I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.
 
The existentialist declares willingly that man is anguish.
 
To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.
 
My lab looks at the ability of stress hormones to kill brain cells, and basically we are trying to understand on a molecular level how a neuron dies after a stroke, a seizure, Alzheimer's, brain aging, and what these stress hormones do to make it worse.
 
Bigamy: Marrying a pretty girl and a good cook !
 
Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.
 
It will happen but it will take time.
 
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
 
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.
 
Human beings are actually more closely related to the two species of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes, the familiar chimp, and Pan paniscus, the rare, smaller pygmy chimp or bonobo) than those chimpanzees are to the other apes.
 
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
 
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
 
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
 
Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.
 
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
 
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