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A cognition is a thought or perception. In other words, your cognitions are the way you are thinking about things at any moment, including this very moment. These thoughts scroll across your mind automatically and often have a huge impact
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“It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.”
― Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
― Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

“I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.”
― On Writing
― On Writing

“Normally pleasure is never the goal of human strivings but rather is, and must remain, an effect, more specifically, the side effect of attaining a goal. Attaining the goal constitutes a reason for being happy. In other words, if there is a reason for happiness, happiness ensues, automatically and spontaneously, as it were. And that is why one need not pursue happiness, one need not care for it once there is a reason for it. Figure 3 But, even more, one cannot pursue it. To the extent to which one makes happiness the objective of his motivation, he necessarily makes it the object of his attention. But precisely by so doing he loses sight of the reason for happiness, and happiness itself must fade away.”
― The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy
― The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

“Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.”
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“The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections”
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