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Exciting writer with captivating quotes:
https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/17/doris-lessing-golden-notebook-reading/Thank you, another great article. (just helped me how to handle a huge book I think I might not be into)
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> The common assumptions that, if the [person] only thinks, one thought is just as good for his mental discipline as another, and that the end of study is the amassing of information, both tend to foster superficial, at the expense of significant, thought...
> The best mental habit involves a balance between paucity and redundancy of suggestions.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/08/18/how-we-think-john-dewey/
#JohnDewey #MariaPopova #TheMarginalian #BrainPickings
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> The eyes of an animal when they consider a man are attentive and wary. The same animal may well look at other species in the same way. He does not reserve a special look for man. But by no other species except man will the animal’s look be recognised as familiar. Other animals are held by the look.
Man becomes aware of himself returning the look.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/01/why-look-at-animals-john-berger-about-looking/
#MariaPopova #TheMarginalian quotes #JohnBerger's #AboutLooking #WhyLookAtAnimals #AnimalViews #動物視線