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Thursday, November 6, 2014

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

-- Louis Pasteur
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Labels: chance, character, Learning, mindfulness, understanding

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

A game is a series of interesting choices

-Sid Meier

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Labels: choice, freedom, games, Learning, math, priorities, trade-offs

Friday, May 2, 2014

"Many people today resent the suggestion that they’re in charge of the way they feel."

--Mike Rowe
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Labels: character, choice, emotions, freedom, Living, mindfulness

Thursday, January 16, 2014

How did we go from character to personality without realizing that we had sacrificed something meaningful along the way?

--Susan Cain, in Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking
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Labels: character, choice, culture, history, priorities, public opinion
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"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

  -Eden Phillpotts

  • How much "juice" is wasted in this cut-and-dry world of ours and how much could be saved if only all were even fairly intelligent regarding the laws of nature!
    A great deal of the business of this world is run on the "let her buzz" theory, and the public pays for the waste. --Elisha Gray,...
  • A game is a series of interesting choices
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  • "A man's emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child."
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