dream_weaver
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Sun and Earth are closest for the entire year today. Earth is at a point in its orbit called perihelion, which means “closest to the Sun.” We are about 1.5 million miles (2.4 million km) closer to the Sun than average.
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no wonder...
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...."Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level, beat you with experience, and bystanders will never know the difference."
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On their annual migratory return to the boreal forest or taiga habitat, the buffleheads stop by for yet another meal.
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Entities are really something. Have you ever noticed that every action has some entity aiding and abetting it?
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Reality is where we observe causal relationships. Or could it be that perceiving causal relationships is when we observe reality?
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Since morality is man's motive power, there is no spiritual reward one can offer as consequential as one's moral sanction—and no spiritual deprivation as harsh as withholding it. (Note: Listed in order of importance.)
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Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
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Judge not, lest you also be judged - sounds like the inscription on a 'moral blank check'. It should read: Judge, and prepare to be judged.
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In order to understand man, or any other human concern, one must understand concepts. One must discover what they are, how they are formed, and how they are used and often misused, in the quest for knowledge.
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When we grasp that all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor, and man's basic freedom of choice is: to exercise his distinctively human cognitive machinery or not - wealth, thus, is a product of choice?
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When listening for the voice of reason, it is important not to ignore what your senses are telling you.
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The reality at the base of the art of hermeneutics is to clearly identify the standard you are referencing your interpretations to.
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If I think I explained it, and you think you do not understand it, was it my ability to explain it or was it your ability to understand it that I don't understand. Could you please explain?
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The identity of what we see is not at stake, though the identification we have given it may be.
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The next time you hear a discussion of "Medicare," give some thought to the future—particularly to the future of your children, who will live at a time when the best brains available will no longer choose to go into medicine.
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To know the exact meanings of the concepts one is using, one must know their correct definitions, one must be able to retrace the specific (logical, not chronological) steps by which they were formed, and one must be able to demonstrate their connection to their base in perceptual reality. - Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
