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"The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?" »Eknath Easwaran
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"No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal." »Marilyn Ferguson
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"I hope you become confortable with the use of logic wihout being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion." »Neil Armstrong, USC 2005 graduation
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"Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning." »Rosenstock-Huessy
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"Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination." »Nathan Campbell
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"To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom." »Sorin Cerin
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"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate." »Arthur Wing Pinero
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"The future is the past returning through another gate." »Arnold Glasgow
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"Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire." »Salvador Dali
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"The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate." »Marcus Terentius Varro
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"Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul." »William Ernest Henley, From the poem "Invictus"
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"Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness." »Hannah More
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"logic is in the eye of the logician." »Gloria Steinem
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"The life of the law has not been logic but experience." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance." »Laurence J. Peter
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"If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river." »Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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"logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority." »Doctor Who
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"logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it." »Samuel Butler
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"logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it." »Samuel Butler
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"The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it." »Eric Hoffer
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"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"A page of history is worth a pound of logic." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"By mistreating the source of all logic we can enforce shortcuts.
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"The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted." »Blaise Pascal
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"In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate." »Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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"And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead." »Philip Robinson
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"If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century." »F.W. Lawvere
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