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All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.
Thomas KuhnRead
Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRead
You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.
Yasmin MogahedRead
Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have will-power , then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.
Dalai LamaRead
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
Brennan ManningRead
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
Dalai LamaRead
Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as the best possible training. Those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is; they are also those who have the most say in the educational system, and in particular by ensuring that the educational product they want is the most highly rewarded.
John FowlesRead
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
Ali Ibn Abi TalibRead
We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.
Dalai LamaRead
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
SolomonRead
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie SchwartzRead
The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a single theory that can give us a single, comprehensive picture of nature.
Lee SmolinRead
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
Max LucadoRead
Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.
Immanuel KantRead
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.
Jagadish Chandra BoseRead
The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.
Gautama BuddhaRead
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.
Thomas S. MonsonRead
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William ShakespeareRead
Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be called "In his last body", "Great in wisdom" and a "Great man."
Gautama BuddhaRead
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
AkhenatonRead

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