Within an ongoing discussion about politics:

Person 1: "That's dangerous. I mean, you do that, and then you have blah, and then foo, and eventually bar.

Person 2: "I don't buy slippery slope arguments."

Person 3: "Good point. I mean, you buy one, and then another, and eventually you're just mindlessly accepting all slippery slope arguments."

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
– R. Buckminster Fuller

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"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them."

—Marilyn Ferguson

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

—James Boswell, 1791

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Lisa Williams: My father reared me on the saying, "An unchanged mind is like unchanged underwear."

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"Nietzche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment — not discouragement — you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

Then when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now."

— Joseph Campbell

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"Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture?"

David Bohm (1917-1992), physicist & philosopher

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One cool factoid from a site full of them.

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. — David Ben

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