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thinking victimization persons
Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating. Charlie Munger
thinking goal feelings
I think that Superman is the pinnacle of the DC Universe. Our feeling always was that you need to get Superman right. That was also our goal. We didn't want to ignore that this universe exists. Charles Roven
taken sacrifice emotional
Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth. Charles Scott Sherrington
thinking wind people
People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down.
tradition classical-music music-is
The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition. Charles Rosen
taken genius mediocrity
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered. Charles Saatchi
tribes murder sooner-or-later
Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder. Charles Simic
truth dark truth-is
The truth is dark under your eyelids.
thinking here-i-am space
The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then-poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think that is very, very funny.
tired sick irs
Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world. Charles Rangel
today growing construction
Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.
thinking people world
I really think that most people around the world know how well-intended Americans are.
thinking white supremacy
Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.
two majority want
You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace. Charles Schumer
thinking gun tipping
I think we could be at a tipping point
thinking issues progress
I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're not going to find the fisticuffs that you would find on lots of other issues. I think you'll be able to glean a sense of progress without us revealing the specifics.
thinking wells
Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.
today economy stills
In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
thinking world way
Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
teaching people want
I want to attract the best people into teaching.
teaching opportunity people
But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
teacher teaching thinking
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
taken may pairs
A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, "It lightens and it thunders ," is conjunctive, "It lightens or it thunders" is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician . Charles Sanders Peirce
thinking people brain
There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.
taken views able
But the extraordinary insight which some persons are able to gain of others from indications so slight that it is difficult to ascertain what they are, is certainly rendered more comprehensible by the view here taken.
truth real mean
All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.
truth science gambling
There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.
truth may limits
Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.
truth disappointment long
A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.
thinking lakes giving
I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.
teacher teaching remember
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.
thinking conscious
We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong.
technology race want
If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.