The real purpose

The real purpose
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
  

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There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.
This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges
Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.
Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.
Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.
Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.
In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.