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Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.
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As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.
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Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.
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What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
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The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.
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If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.
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The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind.
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Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
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Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
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Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
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It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.
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Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.
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When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.
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An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite he becomes more independent.
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What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.
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To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
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Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.
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It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.
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We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.
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A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
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