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"Possibly too focused on details but very interesting nontheless." — Jun 08, 2026 07:14AM
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"Interesting! A pilgrim goes on a journey in order to understand what the words "pray without ceasing" means. Reminds me of some buddhist forms of meditation." — Apr 25, 2026 08:21AM
"Interesting! A pilgrim goes on a journey in order to understand what the words "pray without ceasing" means. Reminds me of some buddhist forms of meditation." — Apr 25, 2026 08:21AM
“when you know that your practices are actually changing your brain, you’re more likely to keep doing them.”
― Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness
― Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness
“People don’t fight because they want different things; they fight because mimetic desire causes them to want the same things.”
― Wanting: Mimetic Desire: How to Avoid Chasing Things You Don't Truly Want
― Wanting: Mimetic Desire: How to Avoid Chasing Things You Don't Truly Want
“I have a foreboding of America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time–when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all of the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; with our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems. A person’s toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people. A boil on one’s neck interests one more than forty earthquakes in Africa. Think of that the next time you start a conversation. PRINCIPLE 4-Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. ��”
― How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie: Building Lasting Relationships and Achieving Success
― How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie: Building Lasting Relationships and Achieving Success
“Just as I was leaving the hospital, I saw a soldier sitting on a box near the dressing station. I stopped and said to him, “What is the matter with you, boy?” He said, “Nothing; I just can’t take it.” I asked what he meant. He said, “I just can’t take being shot at.” I said, “You mean that you are malingering here?” He burst into tears and I immediately saw that he was an hysterical case. I, therefore, slapped him across the face with my glove and told him to get up, join his unit, and make a man of himself, which he did. Actually, at the time he was absent without leave.”
― War As I Knew It
― War As I Knew It
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