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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Me
Respect
Equality
Envy
Passion
Master
Seems
No Respect
Merely
Accept
Which
Disparage
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Lie
Tools
Sin
Fits
Handle
Which
Them
Many
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
Adam Weishaupt
Great
Clouds
Will
Understanding
Sun
Out
Object
Superstition
Attaining
Which
Held
Prejudice
Means
Reason
Illumination
Enlightening
Association
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.
Akhenaton
Change
Will
Men
First
Action
Thou
See
Rely
Thy
Thyself
Know
Unto
Principles
According
Just
Establish
Which
Thee
Them
Then
Incapable
Act
Ever
Right
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Alan Watts
World
Try
Myth
Sense
Terms
Make
Which
Image
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus
Friendship
Truth
Passion
Nothing
Cost
Sincerity
How
Condition
Taste
Any
Which
Spares
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer
Moving On
Great
Character
Better
Sometimes
Light
Mind
Calamities
Bends
Those
Oak
Willow
Tempest
Spirits
Recover
Sooner
Than
Escapes
Frivolous
Often
Happens
Which
Elasticity
Presence
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler
Inferiority
Human Being
Feeling
Own
Possess
Has-Been
Constantly
More
Emotional
Powerful
Towards
Greater
Been
Human
Being
Experienced
Which
Urge
Means
Agitation
Conquest
Violent
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Ambrose Bierce
Game
Man
Conviction
Enjoy
Table
Beating
He
Comfortable
Insurance
Permitted
Modern
Which
Ingenious
Who
Keeps
Player
Chance
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Education
Wise
Understanding
Foolish
Lack
Which
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose Bierce
Technology
Invention
Devil
Distance
Telephone
Some
Disagreeable
Advantages
Making
His
Person
Which
Keep
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
Equality
Law
Face
Rich
Steal
Majestic
Well
Beg
Labour
Bread
Which
Poor
Bridges
Streets
Sleep
We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.
Andrew J. Bernstein
You
Yourself
Goals
Stress
Setting
Setting Goals
Dramatically
Distinguish
Ability
Having
Pushing
Perform
Between
Deadlines
Reduce
Stimulating
Stimulation
Anxious
Upset
Which
Frustrated
Capacity
Your
Need
There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything.
Annette Bening
Love
Family
Nature
Character
You
Parents
Partner
Own
Nothing
Everything
See
Through
Powerful
Like
Spouse
Prism
Friends
Child
Which
Your
Your Child
Connection
Serious
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
Aristotle
Mind
Superior
State
Equal
Equals
Revolt
Inferiors
Revolutions
May
Order
Which
Creates
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Positive
Life
Freedom
Pain
Consists
Freedom From
Which
Element
Satisfaction
You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.
B. Wayne Hughes
Work
You
Work Hard
Money
Unless
Touch
Talent
Lot
Get
Any
Golden
Which
Hard
Here
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
Barry Commoner
Good
You
Change
Problem
Agriculture
Energy
Way
About
Only
Rational
Goods
Global
Global Warming
Deal
Answer
Going
Human
Human Activity
Form
Which
Energy Production
Warming
Ask
Production
Transportation
Manufacturing
Good Deal
Activity
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin
Work
Religion
World
Think
See
Like
Partnership
Cannot
Which
Sanction
Us
Who
Serious
Binds
People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
Bill Hicks
People
Sense
States
Run
Seeing
Take
Share
Itself
America
Irony
Being
Literally
Which
Who
United
United States
Things
Fundamentalists
If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.
Bruce Lipton
Work
Healing
Will
True
Powerful
Equally
Chemicals
Opposite
Brain
Effect
Bloodstream
Expects
Sends
Which
Therapy
Treatment
There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.
Buenaventura Durruti
Freedom
Class
Victory
Tyranny
Only
Both
Roads
Know
Loser
Store
Which
Working
Means
Working-Class
Fascists
Two
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
C. Wright Mills
Try
Men
Live
Visions
Directly
Bounded
Powers
Limited
Private
Ordinary
Which
Ordinary Men
Aware
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
Carl Jung
Soul
Suffering
Must
Understood
Discovered
Ultimately
Which
Meaning
Collaboration is like carbonation for fresh ideas. Working together bubbles up ideas you would not have come up with solo, which gets you further faster.
Caroline Ghosn
You
Working Together
Together
Faster
Collaboration
Further
Solo
Would
Bubbles
Come
Like
Ideas
Fresh
Fresh Ideas
Up
Gets
Which
Working
It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.
Charles Comiskey
Life
Small Things
Small
Count
Leak
Biggest
Which
Reservoir
Things
Inconsequential
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