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“One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.”

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Robert M. Gates is a former United States Secretary of Defense, born on September 25, 1943. He has extensive experience in American politics and the military, holding several key positions in government. more

“Those voices you hear are like the voice of a multitude, which lifts its sound on high; for jubilant praises, offered in simple harmony and charity, lead the faithful to that consonance in which is no discord, and make those who still live on earth sign with heart and voice for the heavenly reward.”

Heart Stills Earth Sound Voice Simple Praise Harmony Charity Rewards Lifts Faithful Heavenly Multitudes Discord Consonance

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it but, also that an organization should be formed to combat it.”

Feels Should Law Natural Ordinary Organization Combat

Book:An American Dilemma, Volume 2: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy

Source: An American Dilemma, Volume 2: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy

“Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.”

Art Common Seeing Information Wide Intense Observing Art And Science

Author:Edward Tufte

“This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.”

Character Lasts Perfect Mark Each Day Pretense Agitation

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.”

Different Hard Strong Race Wind My Time

Author:Eddy Merckx

“We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything. Several new science papers suggest that getting away is an essential habit of effective thinking. When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas we'd previously suppressed. We start thinking about obscure possibilitiebsthat never would have occurred to us if we'd stayed home.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Mind Has Beens Made Stills Ideas Home Differences Secret Creativity Changed Habit Essentials Paper Distance Our Time Get Away Obscure Papers Home Home

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.”

People Moments Dream Speak Glasses Clubs County

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.”

Doe Self Reason Vision Rose Oblivious Forgetful

Author:Angelus Silesius

“Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.”

Men Night Order Cutting Summer Concepts Winter Abstract Sensible Day And Night Continuum Substitution Summer And Winter

Author:William James

“Push on and faith will catch up with you.”

Author:Jean le Rond d'Alembert

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