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«We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
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Dreams
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act as, comparison, comparisons, doings, logical, Nothing yet, purposeful, sleep, strange
«What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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comparison, comparisons, front, in front, pales, paling
«True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.»
Author: Stendhal
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comparison, comparisons, frequent, frequented, frequenting, frequents, pay for, price, standard, terrors, The Standard, True Love
«We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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comparison, handful, lukewarm, machinery, misguide, misguided, murderous, severe, subservient
«Whether the Bible is true or false, is of no consequence in comparison with the mental freedom of the race»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Religion
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comparison, consequence, The Mental
«We can see that the mind is at every stage a theatre of simultaneous possibilities. Consciousness consists in the comparison of these with each other, the selection of some, and the suppression of others, of the rest, by the reinforcing and inhibiting agency of attention . The highest and most celebrated mental products are filtered from the data chosen by the faculty below that - which mass was in turn sifted from a still larger amount of simpler material, and so on.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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agency, and so on, celebrated, comparison, data, faculty, filter, filtered, filtering, filters, inhibit, inhibited, inhibiting, inhibits, in turn, products, reinforce, reinforced, reinforces, reinforcing, sift, sifted, sifting, simpler, simultaneous, suppression, suppressions, theatre, The Faculty
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