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«There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.»
Author: Joseph Heller
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concern, dangers, for one, immediate, rational, safety, safety catch, specified, specify, specifying, The Face of, The Process
«The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry»
Author: Richard Dawkins
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Blind Faith, discouraging, expedient, Expedients, inquiry, perpetuation, rational, secures, unconscious
«There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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finding, foolish, have-not, rational, second, seek, seeking, serve, The Second, The Third, third, typed, types, type A, typing, unhappy
«Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.»
Author: W. Edwards Deming
(Consultant, Educator, Stastistician)
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behavior, rational, reactive, reflex, reflexes
«The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.»
«The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Advances, blind, Blind Faith, certain, evolution, further, furthered, furthering, furthers, genuine, lie, mankind, path, rational, religiosity, seems, spiritual, spiritual being, spiritual death, Spiritual evolution, striving, strivings, The Fear, The Path, The Spiritual
«The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
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Humanity
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catastrophic, cultures, graveyard, graveyards, incapacity, planned, rational, reaction, The History, The History of, voluntary
«The human race is in such a dreadful state that no rational person can talk about it without resorting to seditious and obscene language»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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dreadful, obscene, rational, resorting, seditious
«They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'»
«The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Press
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enlightening, improving, instrument, press, rational, the press
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