Great Throughts Treasury

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Vannevar Bush

Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified. The lawyer has at his touch the associated opinions and decisions of his whole experience, and of the experience of friends and authorities. The patent attorney has on call the millions of issued patents, with familiar trails to every point of his client's interest. The physician, puzzled by its patient's reactions, strikes the trail established in studying an earlier similar case, and runs rapidly through analogous case histories, with side references to the classics for the pertinent anatomy and histology. The chemist, struggling with the synthesis of an organic compound, has all the chemical literature before him in his laboratory, with trails following the analogies of compounds, and side trails to their physical and chemical behavior.

Logic | Opportunity | Thought | Time | Will | Teacher | Thought |

Turkish Proverbs

No camel route is long with good company.

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Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman

The fact that no two major countries have done to war since they both got McDonald’s is partly due to economic integration, but it is also due to the presence of American power and America’s willingness to use that power against those who would threaten the system of globalization–from Iraq to North Korea. The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.[...] McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the US Air Force F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. And these fighting forces and institutions are paid for by American taxpayer dollars.

Age | Important | Influence | Parents | Principles | Thinking | Time | Woman | Teacher |

William James

From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.

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William James

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

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Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.

Learn | Teacher |

Elif Safak

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

Attention | Light | Mistake | Obedience | Power | Will | World | Teacher |

Eliza Cook

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart.

Courage | Devotion | Future | Guile | Intrigue | Life | Life | Man | Popularity | Principles | Public | Righteousness | Skill | Youth | Following | Youth | Intellect | Teacher |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Imagine mental Port… he is probably a dilapidated port, torn by storms, but the location is good and suitable depth. Port mind is an open bay, it is the only entrance to the island of self (the young and volcanic island, yes, but fertile and promising). This island has fought some wars, but is now committed to peace, led by a new leader (i) develop new policies to protect the place. now, there is much more stringent laws regarding who enters this port... if you can, my dear my thoughts commitment these new laws, Welcome, Otherwise, Feltrdjaa the sea, from where I came from.

Day | Hope | Will | Teacher |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

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Emma Goldman

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations.

Consciousness | Man | Philosophy | Society | Unity | Society | Teacher |

Emmet Fox

The whole of our life's experience is but the outer expression of inner thought.

Chance | Desire | Forgiveness | Heart | Nothing | Problems | Troubles | Forgiveness | Forgive | Teacher |

Emmet Fox

And the Truth turns out to be nothing less than the amazing but undeniable fact that the whole outer world -whether it be the physical body, the common things of life, the winds and the rain, the clouds, the earth itself -is amenable to man's thought, and that he had dominion over it when he knows it.

Bible | Faith | Law | Life | Life | Prayer | Right | Struggle | Truth | Understanding | Will | Bible | Teacher |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

Raising a family wasn't something I put on my resumé, but I have to ask myself, would I apply for the same job again?

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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.

Day | Need | Practice | Question | Time | Teacher |

Eugen Herrigel

Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! he exclaimed. The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

Aptitude | Awareness | Cult | Danger | Ego | Existence | Life | Life | Present | Reason | Right | Spirit | Success | Time | Witness | Worth | Talent | Danger | Awareness | Teacher |

Eugen Herrigel

outward realization must occur automatically, in no further need of the controlling or reflecting intelligence.

Control | Inspiration | Intention | Obtuse | Following | Teacher |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

Books | Literature | Nothing | Writing | Learn | Teacher |

Ezra Taft Benson

As we cleanse the inner vessel, there will have to be changes made in our own personal lives, in our families, and in the Church. The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change. But we can do it.

Better | Business | Children | Church | Family | Ideas | Influence | Means | Men | Opportunity | Parents | Reason | Religion | Youth | Youth | Business | Child | Teacher |

Felix Adler

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. What its great thinkers have thought and written on the deepest problems of life, shall we not hear and enjoy? The future calls upon us to prepare its way. Dare we fail to answer its solemn summons?

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