"Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

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“Guru Arjun tells us that the truth we seek is within ourselves, and I agree. The answers to many of our greatest desires, needs, and longings are inside. We only need to know how to retrieve them. The most powerful vehicle for retrieving our longed for answers is applied intelligence, which is the combination of information and experience. Applied intelligence brings true wisdom because it includes experience, usually on a deep level.”
“The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.”
“Bow to nothing, son. I make mistakes as well as any man. If you think me wrong, be so good as to damn well say so.”
“I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they required irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.”
“Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.”
“O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!”
“Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside.”
“SavingÂ our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth â€“Â these are one and the same fight.”

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