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Saturday, 19 May 2012

Daily Quote: "Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there." (Jackson, Bo - Goals)

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	Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. - (Whitehead, Alfred North - Action)
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	Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them. - (Whitehead, Alfred North - Action)
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	Without adventure civilization is in full decay. - (Whitehead, Alfred North - Adventure)
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	Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. - (Whitehead, Alfred North - Arts and Artists)
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	Common sense is genius in homespun. - (Whitehead, Alfred North - Common Sense)
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	Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. - (Whitehead, Alfred North - Common Sense)
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	True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason. - (Whitehead, Alfred North - Courage)
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	But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. - (Whitehead, Alfred North - Destiny)
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	An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. - (Whitehead, Alfred North - Experience)
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	Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. - (Whitehead, Alfred North - Familiarity)
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	In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit. - (Whitehead, Alfred North - Habit)
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	The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. - (Whitehead, Alfred North - Ideas)
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	Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. - (Whitehead, Alfred North - Ideas)
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	Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. - (Whitehead, Alfred North - Intelligence and Intellectuals)
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	Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. - (Whitehead, Alfred North - Life and Living)
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