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“So, the answer to whether an impulsive or controlled action is seen as more authentic depends on two factors: Agent (self or other) and Valence (positive or negative).”

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“The value of art lies in its power to inspire, not in its price tag.”

— Unknown

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“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss money.”

— Oscar Wilde

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“They speak of poverty, yet their art finds its home among the wealthy.”

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“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”

— Ayn Rand

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The Stone Mind

Hogen, a Chinese Zen teacher, lived alone in a small temple in the country. One day four traveling monks appeared and asked if they might make a fire in his yard to warm themselves.

While they were building the fire, Hogen heard them arguing about subjectivity and objectivity. He joined them and said: There is a big stone. Do you consider it to be inside or outside your mind?’

One of the monks replied: ‘From the Buddhist viewpoint everything is an objectification of mind, so I would say that the stone is inside my mind.’

‘Your head must feel very heavy’, observed Hogen. ‘if you are carrying around a stone like that in your mind.’ 

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“Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.”

— Habeeb Akande

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