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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
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What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
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Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.
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The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame.
Mark Frost
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
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To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.


Henri Nouwen
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
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Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.


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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.


Jose Ortega y Gasset
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But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.
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I've always felt like I belonged, and you need affirmation every now and then.


Jimmy Walker
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I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
Abraham Lincoln
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Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.


Robert Zemeckis
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Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.


Sydney Carter
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.


Jacob Bronowski
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Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.


Dodie Smith
Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. There is this breed of gimmicky documentary that is basically a reality show.
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