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Kenny Smith Quotes: The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.
         

The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.


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Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.



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Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."



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Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.



Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men’s Basketball team, and now the All-Star team.

Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men’s Basketball team, and now the All-Star team.



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I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race.



When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.



Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.



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If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.





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Her beloved lunatic needed her–whether he knew it or not. Whatever it took, she was not leaving without him.



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The patient says, "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Then don't do that!"



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All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.



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Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.



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