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Cynthia Ozick : I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called scientific mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips. # Facts # Gossip # Thoughts and Thinking

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Andrea Dworkin : " While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. " # Facts # Gossip # Thoughts and Thinking

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Eleanor Roosevelt : " Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. " # Facts # Gossip # Thoughts and Thinking

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Jack Welch : " I enjoy challenging a person's ideas. No one loves a good and passionately fought argument more than I do. This isn't about being tough-minded and straightforward. That's the job. But so is sensing when to hug and when to kick. Of course, arrogant people who refuse to learn from their mistakes have to go. If we're managing good people who are clearly eating themselves up over an error, our job is to help them through it. That doesn't mean you have to take it easy on your top performers. " # Facts # Gossip # Thoughts and Thinking

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Myrtle Barker : " The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish? " # Facts # Gossip # Thoughts and Thinking

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Ingmar Bergman : " Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude. " # Facts # Gossip # Thoughts and Thinking

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik : " What on earth should we do if we had no matches to make, or mar; no "unfortunate attachments" to shake our heads over; no flirtations to speculate about and comment upon with knowing smiles; no engagements "on" or "off" to speak our minds about, nosing out every little circumstance, and ferreting out our game to their very hole, as if all their affairs, their hopes, trials, faults, or wrongs, were being transacted for our own private and peculiar entertainment! Of all forms of gossip — I speak of mere gossip, as distinguished from the carrion-crow and dunghill-fly system of scandal-mongering — this tittle-tattle about love-affairs is the most general, the most odious, and the most dangerous. Every one of us must have known within our own experience many an instance of dawning loves checked, unhappy loves made cruelly public, happy loves embittered, warm, honest loves turned cold, by this horrible system of gossiping about young or unmarried people... ~ Ch. 8 " # Facts # Gossip # Thoughts and Thinking

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Source Unknown : " Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people. " # Facts # Gossip # Thoughts and Thinking

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Michael Balcon : " I always look for people whose ideas coincide with mine, and then I'm ready to give them a chance to make a name for themselves. " # Facts # Gossip # Thoughts and Thinking

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David Bohm : " What I mean by 'thought' is the whole thing — thought, 'felt', the body, the whole society sharing thoughts — it's all one process. It is essential for me not to break that up, because it's all one process; somebody else's thought becomes my thought, and vice versa. Therefore it would be wrong and misleading to break it up into my thought, your thought, my feelings, these feelings, those feelings. I would say that thought makes what is often called in modern language a system. A system means a set of connected things or parts. But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent — not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence. A corporation is organized as a system — it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on. Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society — as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began. But with the growth of civilization it has developed a great deal. It was probably very simple thought before civilization, and now it has become very complex and ramified and has much more incoherence than before. Now, I say that this system has a fault in it — a 'systematic fault'. It is not a fault here, there or here, but it is a fault that is all throughout the system. Can you picture that? It is everywhere and nowhere. You may say "I see a problem here, so I will bring my thoughts to bear on this problem". But "my" thought is part of the system. It has the same fault as the fault I'm trying to look at, or a similar fault. Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn’t notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates. " # Facts # Gossip # Thoughts and Thinking

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Simone Weil : " There is no area in our minds reserved for superstition, such as the Greeks had in their mythology; and superstition, under cover of an abstract vocabulary, has revenged itself by invading the entire realm of thought. Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought. In every sphere, we seem to have lost the very elements of intelligence: the ideas of limit, measure, degree, proportion, relation, comparison, contingency, interdependence, interrelation of means and ends. To keep to the social level, our political universe is peopled exclusively by myths and monsters; all it contains is absolutes and abstract entities. This is illustrated by all the words of our political and social vocabulary: nation, security, capitalism, communism, fascism, order, authority, property, democracy. We never use them in phrases such as: There is democracy to the extent that... or: There is capitalism in so far as... The use of expressions like "to the extent that" is beyond our intellectual capacity. Each of these words seems to represent for us an absolute reality, unaffected by conditions, or an absolute objective, independent of methods of action, or an absolute evil; and at the same time we make all these words mean, successively or simultaneously, anything whatsoever. Our lives are lived, in actual fact, among changing, varying realities, subject to the casual play of external necessities, and modifying themselves according to specific conditions within specific limits; and yet we act and strive and sacrifice ourselves and others by reference to fixed and isolated abstractions which cannot possibly be related either to one another or to any concrete facts. In this so-called age of technicians, the only battles we know how to fight are battles against windmills. [p.222] " # Facts # Gossip # Thoughts and Thinking

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Source Unknown : " It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas. " # Facts # Gossip # Thoughts and Thinking

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Cynthia Ozick: " After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces." # Faces # Biography # Responsibility

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Cynthia Ozick: " To want to be what one can be is purpose in life." # Purpose

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Cynthia Ozick: " Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole everything follows logically: first the baby, then the placenta, then, for years and years and years until death, a way of life. It is all logic, and she who lives by the hole will live also by its logic. It is, appropriately, logic with a hole in it." # Body # Death and Dying # Babies

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Cynthia Ozick: " I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called scientific mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips." # Facts # Gossip # Thoughts and Thinking

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Cynthia Ozick: " The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap." # Madness # Morality # Fame

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Cynthia Ozick: " In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better." # Obvious # Choice # Deception

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Cynthia Ozick: " One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival." # Writers and Writing # Revenge # Life and Living

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Cynthia Ozick: " Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey." # Secrets # Travel and Tourism # Life and Living

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Cynthia Ozick: " The engineering is secondary to the vision." # Engineering # Vision # Books - Reading

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Cynthia Ozick: " The engineering is secondary to the vision." # Engineering # Vision # Books - Reading

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