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Ralph Cudworth

"Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within."

Source : Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1838). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. A Treatise on Immutable Morality; with a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper: and Two Sermons on 1. John 2: 3, 4, and 1. Cor. 15: 27”, p.423

Ralph Cudworth

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“Bush is no conservative.”
“The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is also a repudiation of the Third Commandment's prohibition of freedom of speech. The Thirteenth Amendment repudiates the institution of slavery which is so cozily assumed by the Fourth and Tenth Protestant Commandments.”
“When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.”
“Having Plan B is good. But if your obsessed with Plan A, u'll never need backup. Become Obsessed with ur goals, ur focus will bring results.”
“I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.”

Source : Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2006.
“Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.”
“As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.”

"Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within."

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