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Letter "R" » ruts
«The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions»
«The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.»
Author: M. Scott Peck
(
Author,
psychiatrist)
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«The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.»
Author: John Dewey
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Educator,
Philosopher,
Psychologist)
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Keywords:
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least resistance,
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«The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(
Critic,
Journalist)
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About:
Mind
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Keywords:
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fifty,
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Fundamentalists,
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rut,
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«What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
consistency,
consistent,
gospel,
Gospels,
rut,
ruts,
rutting,
stick,
stick in
«We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences»