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The Mind & the Brain by Jeffrey M. Schwartz Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker Plato by Plato The Anti-Chomsky Reader by Peter Collier Introduction to Phenomenology by Robert Sokolowski Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Bryan Magee The Making of a Philosopher by Colin McGinn The Firm by Robin Waterfield Mind, Language And Society by John Rogers Searle
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Book cover for The Three Things the Rest of Us Should Know about Zen Training: The Value of Zazen Meditation (Personal Transformation series Book 2)
The Three Things the Rest of Us Should Know about Zen Training: The Value of Zazen Meditation (Personal Transformation series Book 2) by Dennis E. Bradford
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“I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.”
― Alexander Hamilton
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“It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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