#mentat

It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#argumentation #logic-of-thought #persuasion #r-alan-woods #scholarly

Replace anger with peace,moderation and clear argumentation. It hurts more the other side! ↗

— Dionisis Agelakis

#argumentation #moderation #anger

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see. ↗

— Criss Jami

#afraid #change #cognition #experimentation #eyes

The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund. ↗

— Ed Royce

#appropriate #authors #bailed #bank #business

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#argumentation #avoidance #challenge #challenger #contempt

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#education #learning #regimentation #education

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#apostle #bear #comes #death #easier

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#fact #only #pigmentation

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#extraordinary #genius #instrumentation #quite #really

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. ↗

— John Cheever

#experimentation #fiction