Eugene J. Martin Quotes

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There can be danger in stretching the body if it's not done properly. The same is true with the imagination and the chemistry which may give the imagination elasticity, but the soul gives a direction.

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It's past time that people get involved in thinking – now that the computers can take over the field of memory.

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Beware of the possible reason some people are honestly down and out - it is because they tried to copy the many who are superficially doing well.

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One tool that is used most and has the greatest misuse of power is looks, and another tool that is used least and has the least desire for power is wisdom.

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The more fortunate people among us would surely think we are civilized, but the less fortunate among us are a reminder that we're not.

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Things differ because of the time in which they exist. In time, things opposite will reverse themselves. Also, judging does the opposite of clearing it confuses. Now, if any of this you judged to be non-sense, then perhaps it's not so obvious that judging is the worst escort perception can have.

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Sometimes when you feed on another's word you must eat it like a banana – you peel it first.

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Rather than programming children as if they were computers, parents should be something like art instructors. Because life is like a clump-of-clay, you can't make it into an expression of beauty, unless you take it into your hands. While sprinkling their lives with painful and playful diversions, people wait their lives miserably into old age, for the skills to live-life, to–come as did life- itself.

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If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.

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'It's a great tragedy that the ability to act is used to manipulate people, but it is a greater tragedy that people welcome it while sometimes making a phony protest.

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Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?

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Conflict is necessary for growth. But too often conflict becomes a haven for the soul. Until one day, the soul can no longer free itself. In real growth the soul learns to fly rather than having the ego inflated with praise from accomplishments as if it were a balloon. Only because it buys time, do we develop a strong and protective ego. This is the early stage in the soul's evolution, until such time when the soul hatches out of its shell, which is the ego, into a new world in which there is incomparable beauty.

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Most writers are successful in getting their readers' attention, but fail at getting them to think. If you're asked to explain anything philosophical to anyone, the chances are great their understanding will be superficial; it's best they don't understand than to think they do, so encourage them to grow into understanding and don't hand them too much explanation.

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Vanity begins and ends with deception, so the reason people put interesting and attractive clothes on their bodies is perhaps the same for having uninteresting and unattractive expressions on their faces.

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Truth is so large OR people's minds are so small that they're only able to nibble on the edges – and when growth brings them to the area where they can feed on truth itself, as they move in and eat of the seed, there they become truth.

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Just as feelings grow out of ignorance, intuition should grow out of knowledge.

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In order to stay clear of pain, we must know and know why we feel best while having pain.

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The words human nature can be the greatest obstacle to human growth.

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Having a sincere desire to want growth does not mean at that point you are committing yourself to growth.

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People find it easy to justify their frustration in the struggle to manipulate others, but find it hard to justify the struggle for their own growth.

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Rather than studying the laws of cause and effect, people spend their lives being the effect and running from the cause.

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Americans are simple people with simple interests – The only time they sincerely ask why about anything is when they don't receive their paychecks.

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Passion is a disguise for attachment – sometimes as hate and other times as love.

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All things – great, small, good, bad, friend, enemy—should be a lesson, not an obsession.

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Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.

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Being able to communicate with someone doesn't necessarily mean that you understand them.

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Because of subconscious guilt, people spend half their lives in self-punishment and the other half taking on more guilt.

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The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

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People fight not because they disagree, but because they don't know they agree.

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Defensive thinkers best defend themselves from knowing who they are.

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