We have a task before us which must be speedily performed.
We know that it will be ruinous to make delay
The most important crisis of our life calls, trumpet-tongued, for immediate energy and action.
We glow, we are consumed with eagerness to...
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You absolutely own your mind.
It’s yours.
This is part of “the gift of life” thing that you get in exchange for never having asked to be born.
You are the proprietor of your thoughts and feelings, and you choose how you frame the many experiences...
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Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods may be, for my unconquerable soul
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance,
My head is...
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A relic from the Dutch golden age, “The Night Watch” is Rembrandt’s masterpiece. It’s a painting that illustrates perfectly his mastery over light and shadow. Currently it is the crown jewels of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the most famous...
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How do we know the things we see are real? What is the nature of reality, and can we ever hope to see behind the curtains? 2400 years ago, the famous Greek philosopher Plato came up with an interesting allegory to tackle this issue.
Imagine a...
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Artificial intelligence is a very interesting subject. For many years now, there’s been unanswered questions about whether it is possible for a computer to develop actual intelligence. With the rapidly developing technology of today, I believe it...
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What do you think an artist is?
An imbecile who has only his eyes if he’s a painter, or ears if he’s a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he’s a poet, or even, if he’s a boxer… Just his muscles?
On the contrary, he’s at the same...
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The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious.
It is the underlying principle of religion as well as of all serious endeavour in art and science.
He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead,...
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle...
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Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and...
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