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«Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlived its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning.»
«Religious matters are to be separated from the jurisdiction of the state not because they are beneath the interests of the state, but, quite to the contrary, because they are too high and holy and thus are beyond the competence of the state»
Author: Isaac Backus
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beneath, competence, contrary, holy, interests, jurisdiction, separated, The State, thus, to the contrary
«Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
clearly, cure, defeat, depression, depressions, derision, drug, drugged, drugging, ease, eases, freeing, free spirit, laugh at, miracle, perspective, perspectives, pity, put in, remedy, seemingly, self-pity, self help, seriously, solution, terrible, the Depression, The Spirit, thus, whines, whining
«Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
allow, Brains, business, business life, carefully, cast, cast about, cast on, child, Child of God, combating, combats, days, defeat, denial, denials, entire, envy, envying, external, externals, fault, finding, flower, flower child, flower power, foolish, forces, fragile, gloom, guard, hate, jealously, life force, menial, No self, on guard, on your guard, pall, palls, parade, paraded, parading, permit, pieces, precious, pull, rain, required, sacrificed, self-denial, set, set up, shape, talent, thus, wasted, wasting time
«I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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complete, emotion, emotions, expands, later, note, past times, thus
«Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.»
«People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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causing, converts, likeness, likenesses, peculiar, reflected, represented, thus
«Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.»
«My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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attained, bathed, bathes, contradictories, contradictory, extracted, extracting, extracts, find out, flash, flashed, flashing, glance, glanced, glances, glancing, hurried, hurries, images, in a flash, sensuous, The Flash, The Vision, throng, thronged, thronging, thus, wherein, withdrawing, withdraws, withdrew
