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Related Topic(s): Appreciation
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In proportion as our mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.
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Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, France - August 19, 1662, in Paris) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a civil servant. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.
Pascal was a mathematician of the first order. He helped create two major new areas of research. He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. Following Galileo and Torricelli, in 1646 he refuted Aristotle's followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum. His results caused many disputes before being accepted. |
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Related Topic(s): Appreciation; Beauty; Consciousness; Flowers; Gardens; Resources; Strength
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Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.
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Robert Bly
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An American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States |
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Related Topic(s): Culture; Surroundings; Times
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Times affect us just as places; we live equally in them both; we are surrounded by them, they touch us, fashion us, leave always some impression on us. Unhealthy places and decadent times infect us by their contagion.
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Related Topic(s): Culture; Oppression; Serfdom; WORK
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If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.
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Related Topic(s): Culture; Intellectual; Intelligence
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
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Related Topic(s): Culture; Disempowerment; Government; Men Women; Politics
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I sometimes think politics is what happens to men, and culture is what happens to women.
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Related Topic(s): Culture; Disempowerment; Government; Men Women; Politics
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I sometimes think politics is what happens to men, and culture is what happens to women.
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Related Topic(s): Culture; Cultures; History; Making History; Story
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"We experience the world through stories. Whoever tells the stories of a culture defines the terms, the agenda, and the common issues we face."
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| Geroge Gerbner |
After [serving in WW2] he worked as a freelance writer and publicist and taught journalism at El Camino College while earning a master's (1951) and doctorate (1955) in communications at the University of Southern California. His dissertation, "Toward a General Theory of Communication," won USC's award for "best dissertation."
He had been Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania (1964–1989), and presided over the school's growth and influence in Communication Theory in academia. After leaving Annenberg, he became the Bell Atlantic Professor of Telecommunication at Temple University in 1997. - Wikipedia |
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Related Topic(s): Subtlety; Teaching
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where the mystery is the deepest is the source of all that is subtle and wonderful.
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| Lao T'zu |
born approx. 600 b.c. in China, or may be entirely apocryphal.
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Related Topic(s): Subtlety
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Where the mystery is the deepest is the source of all that is subtle and wonderful.
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| Lao T'zu |
born approx. 600 b.c. in China, or may be entirely apocryphal.
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