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• Increasing numbers of Pagans are identifying themselves as animists or naming their worldview as animism. Some Pagans use the term animism to refer to one strand within their Paganism, while others identify it as the most appropriate label for everything they do.

  Graham Harvey

  Numbers, Labels, Paganism

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• I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

  Ferran Adria

  Cooking, Kitchen, Pathways

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• Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Masters, Rationality

  "Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians". lesswrong.com. April 20, 2011.

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• Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at "capitalism" because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Law, People, Criticism

  Comment as Eliezer Yudkowsky @yudkowsky, www.facebook.com. June 10, 2012.

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• So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries.

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

  Art, Keys, Doors

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1676). “The Vanity of Arts and Sciences”, p.109

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• We know what willpower is, but by some misguided conception, many of us believe we have to be a certain type of person, strong, determined, extroverted, to be able to be willful, to exercise willpower. Not so. We all have it and just don't know how to use it.

  Rosemary Altea

  Strong, Believe, Exercise

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• I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos I think I may actually be able to use in a book one day. I need that focus when buying, because without it I'd just buy everything and my house would be overrun with bucket loads of snapshots; there are just too many beautiful images in the world, and I'd need to own them all.

  Ransom Riggs

  Beautiful, Book, Thinking

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• The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Compassion, Practice

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• Men use to reason with themselves: It will not always be health, let us lay up for sickness; it will not always be youth, for age; and why not, saith St. Paul, it will not alway be this life, nor alway present life, lay up for yourselves against the life to come.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Men, Age, Why Not

  Lancelot Andrewes (2008). “Ninety-Six Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester, Vol. V”, p.48, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.

  Yasmina Reza

  Father, Men, Thinking

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• You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful later—and vice versa. I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.

  Lisa Randall

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• Well, I don't ever leave out details, in that I don't come up with information or description which I don't then use. I only ever come up with what seems to me absolutely essential to make the story work. I'm not usually an overwriter. As I revise, it's usually a matter of adding in as much vivid details as seem necessary to make the story come clear without slowing down the momentum of the story.

  Kelly Link

  Essentials, Details, Momentum

  Interview with Maggie Slater, www.apex-magazine.com. Juy 2, 2013.

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• Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?

  David Harvey

  Mean, Ideas, Giving

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy as a whole fall into ill-repute because of those among its devotees who have stumbled into wells, or who aimlessly pass their lives in whetting their faculties and then neglecting to use them.

  John Grier Hibben

  Philosophy, Fall, Philosopher

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• Karma is the record of services. Karma is the term used in Buddhist teaching. Taoists use the term te. Christians us the term "deed." Many other spiritual beings use the term "virtue." Karma, te, deed, and virtue are the same thing but in different words. To understand karma is to understand all of these words.

  Zhi Gang Sha

  Karma, Christian, Spiritual

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• It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.

  Fred Rodell

  Running, Mistake, Men

  Fred Rodell (1986). “55 Men, Story of Constitution”, p.22, Stackpole Books

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• I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Book, Thinking, Friendly

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• A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Technique, Down And

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• Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared. He uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects and will take greater risks in carrying them out than any other malefactor on earth.

  Robert Barr

  Evil, Risk, Earth

  Robert Barr (2016). “The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont”, p.15, Oldcastle Books

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• Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is terrorism: from imminent heart attack to a bad case of hangnail in fifteen years flat. We are very lucky people--but we need to use the time we have been granted wisely, because total war is only sleeping. All the major states are still organized for war, and all that is needed for the world to slide back into a nuclear confrontation is a twist of the kaleidoscope that shifts international relations into a new pattern of rival alliances.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Country, War, Sleep

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• One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.

  Gerald Asher

  Writing, Wine, Thinking

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• The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.

  Paul Ormerod

  Air, Temptation, Mathematics

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.

  William A. Henry III

  Dream, Mean, Vision

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• Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.

  William Poundstone

  Debate, Shannon, Entropy

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.57, Macmillan

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• Our alleged facts might be true in all kinds of ways without contradicting any truth already known. I will dwell now on only one possible line of explanation, - not that I see any way of elucidating all the new phenomena I regard as genuine, but because it seems probable I may shed a light on some of those phenomena. All the phenomena of the universe are presumably in some way continuous; and certain facts, plucked as it were from the very heart of nature, are likely to be of use in our gradual discovery of facts which lie deeper still.

  William Crookes

  Lying, Heart, Light

  "Address to the Society for Psychical Research". "Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research", Volume 12, (p. 338), March 1897.

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