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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

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The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage. ↗

— Florynce R. Kennedy

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Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

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The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place. ↗

— George Saunders

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Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. ↗

— Guru Nanak

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We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. ↗

— Buddha

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