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«There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.»
Author: Anthony de Mello
| About:
Happiness,
Unhappiness
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commonly, false belief, occurs, unhappiness, widespread
«The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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«What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Anticipation
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anticipate, occurs
«The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.»
«Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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beyond, done, done for, evil, good and, most evil, Much Evil, occurring, occurs, The Beyond
«The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.»
«The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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