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If you have ever spent time in a university setting, you quickly learn that intelligence and motivation have little to do with getting things done on a regular basis.
“...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.”
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“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
― The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
― The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
“Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.”
― The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
― The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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