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to Act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.

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Advice is what you get when the person you are talking to wants to revel in the superiority of his or her own intelligence.

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Advice is what you get when the person you’re talking with about something horrible and complicated wishes you would just shut up and go away.

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Aggression is what underlies the drive to be outstanding, to be unstoppable, to compete, to win—to be actively virtuous, at least along one dimension.

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Aim is a necessary — We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.

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An Aim is that which provides a destination, a point of contrast against the present, and a framework, within which all things can be evaluated.

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An Aim is that which reduces anxiety, because if you have no aim everything can mean anything or nothing, and neither of those two options makes for a tranquil spirit.

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Atheism is non-existent — there are no atheists. There are only people who know, and don’t know, what God they serve.

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Being is process, not a state; a journey, not a destination; the continual transformation of what you know, through encounter with what you don’t know, rather than the desperate clinging to the certainty that is eternally insufficient in any case.

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Being is something more akin to story or drama; lived, subjective experience, as it manifests itself moment to moment in the consciousness of every living person.

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The Boy is material-oriented — boys' interests tilt towards things; girls’ interests tilt towards people.

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The Boy is more given to suffering in the modern world, as boys are dispositionally less agreeable (and thus less compassion and conflict averse).

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Consciousness is what gives everything a perspective. It gives it a size, it gives it a duration, and it gives it colors, and all the qualities that we associate with being, and without that consciousness, all that is at least incomprehensible.

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God is a transcendent reality that's only observable across the longest of timeframes.