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#1

“Believers in psychic phenomena... appear to have won a decisive victory and virtually silenced opposition.... This victory is the result of careful experimentation and intelligent argumentation. Dozens of experimenters have obtained positive results in ESP experiments, and the mathematical procedures have been approved by leading statisticians.... Against all this evidence, almost the only defense remaining to the skeptical scientist is ignorance.”
― George R. Price

tags: esp, psi, skepticism

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#2

“Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason.”
― James Hervey Johnson

tags: both-sides, brainwashing, cowards, critical-examination, doctrines, dogma, examination, fools, immature, indoctrination, intelligence, laziness, rational-thought, reason, teachers, thinking

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#3

“Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. He adapts himself to the laws of nature or he perishes.”
― James Hervey Johnson

tags: adaptation, biology, evolution, humanity, laws, laws-of-nature, man, materialism, natural-laws, naturalism, nature, science, struggle, universe

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#4

“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...”
― Thomas Jefferson

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#5

“Life has existential suffering; we become happy by caring.”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: caring, education, existential, happiness, happy, hope, inspirational, intelligence, knowledge, life, love, philosophy, suffering, truth, wisdom

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#6

“A little caring, a little love, and a little kindness can give you joy and bring enduring happiness.”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: caring, education, enduring, happiness, hope, inspirational, intelligence, joy, kindness, knowledge, life, love, philosophy, truth, wisdom

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#7

“Love, caring, and the spirit of kindness always bring happiness. Our greatest happiness depends on what we love, how we care, and how we share.”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: care, caring, education, happiness, hope, inspirational, intelligence, kindness, knowledge, life, love, philosophy, share, spirit, truth, wisdom

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#8

“Humility makes us more friendly
Happiness makes us more lively.
Love makes us more caring
Dream makes us more daring.
Trust makes us more forgiving
Kindness makes us more loving.
Hope gives us the joy of dreaming
Peace gives us the joy of living.”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: caring, daring, debasish, dream, dreaming, forgiving, friendly, happiness, hope, humility, joy, kindness, life, lively, living, love, loving, mridha, peace, philosophy, trust

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#9

“If you like to fill your life with joy
Just be loving
Just be caring
And just be kind.”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: caring, debasish, joy, kind, life, loving, mridha, philosophy

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#10

“Love is the giving from the heart
Without expecting any return.
Love is the sharing the beauty of life
Without expecting any charm or joy
Love is the caring with kindness
Without knowing caring is the joy.”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: beauty, caring, charm, debasish, heart, joy, kindness, life, love, mridha, philosophy

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#11

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.”
― Thomas Carlyle

tags: dullness, poetry

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#12

“Creativity is not any accumulated knowledge, coming from past to the present. The stage of creation is a spontaneous flash of intelligence, Energy merging with mind, to create a new beginning. Creativity and meditation are similar, as both are expressions of something beyond mind.”
― Gian Kumar

tags: creativity

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#13

“Justice has a right to protest against injustice.”
― sir kristian goldmund aumann

tags: injustice, justice, protest

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#14

“Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

tags: criticism, judgement, poetry

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#15

“Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It's a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.”
― Zack W. Van

tags: adversity, bullying, strength, truthful, weakness

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#16

“You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: bullying, friends, pity, school, schoolmates

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#17

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: crying, heartfelt, shame, sorrow, tears

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#18

“History's best thinkers eventually concluded that our flaws were too powerful to trust with freedom. Thus we've been groomed as hamsters in a wheel that benefits a laughing few. No more great works will be accomplished under the regime, because beauty is not democratic or profitable.”
― DBC Pierre

tags: lights-out-in-wonderland

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#19

“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.”
― Edward Hopper

tags: art, artists, expression, vision

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#20

“Sentences like the following are found in many mystical and reactionary writings though not as clearly formulated as by Hutten:

''Kulturbolschewismus is nothing new. It is based on a striving which humanity has had since its earliest days: the longing for happiness. It is the eternal nostalgia for paradise on earth . . . The religion of faith is replaced by the religion of pleasure.''

We, on the other hand, ask: Why not happiness on earth? Why should not pleasure be the content of life? If one were to put this question to a general vote, no reactionary ideology could stand up.

The reactionary also recognizes, though in a mystical manner, the connection between mysticism and compulsive marriage and family:

''Because of this responsibility (for the possible consequences of pleasure), society has created the institution of marriage which, as a lifelong union, provides the protective frame for the sexual relationship.''

Right after this, we find the whole register of "cultural values" which, in the framework of reactionary ideology, fit together like the parts of a machine:

''Marriage as a tie, the family as a duty, the fatherland as value of its own, morality as authority, religion as obligation from eternity.''

It would be impossible better to describe the rigidity of human plasma!”
― Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

tags: authority, family, fatherland, freedom, happiness, human, humanity, ideology, marriage, mysticism, obligation, pleasure, reactionary-politics, religion, responsability, sexual-freedom, sexuality, striving, ties

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#21

“To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.”
― Janet Jackson, True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself

tags: confused-mind, confusion

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#22

“The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: average, different, freak, interesting, misfit, ordinary, outcast, rare, unique, unusual, weird

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#23

“...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group”
― Shirley Jackson, Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

tags: alone, come-to-the-fair, isolation, loneliness, lonely, misery, outcast, recluse, solitary, solitude

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#24

“In some cases, some way, and sometimes you can tolerate or even if needed be considerate, but do not ever compromise moreover lower your standards.”
― Glad Munaiseche

tags: compromise, considerate, consideration-of-others, standard, tolerate

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