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Intellectual achievements are the result of thought consecrated to the search for knowledge, or for the beautiful and true in life and nature. Such achievements may be sometimes connected with vanity and ambition, but they are not the outcome of those characteristics; they are the natural outgrowth of long and arduous effort, and of pure and unselfish thoughts.
As a Man Thinketh
James Allen
As I had now read in the books that Stefan had supplied me with, one of the basic principles of Volkism is, for the Troendes, the “nostalgia of the Samith”, “the pain of the heart”, which is caused by the lack of it and which pervades the entire human existence without us being aware of it. In our species, this nostalgia presents itself in the form of “noble pain”, such as the anticipation of a great and true love.
Chronicles From the Future
Paul Amadeus Dienach and Achilleas Sirigos
The ultimate lesson of the question was that detailed prior knowledge was less important than a way of thinking.
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