Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.757

   So it's just this idea that, one of the things I think that it's really necessary, well, two things, since I evoked Obama I'll say two things. One, I think it's really important for us is not lose sight of how he made the impossible possible. I mean, above and beyond whatever you think about his presidency, I didn't ever think I would see that. I think that's important to remember. A lot of times when I say, okay, I wanna make Apex, it's gonna take a hundred million dollars that's impossible to do. But I have to remind myself that it's very possible, okay? Just like Black people imagine themse…

   yt/fe-7ILSKSog-bell-hooks-and-arthur-jafa-discuss-transgression-in-public-s/transcript.txt

2. 02 · _intake0.738

   It’s not important if you are a “train wreck” in some fashion today. What is most important today is to give yourself the gift of self renewal. Rise from your own ashes and begin to try to touch your potential. **Don’t wish. Begin to do**.

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/what-is-the-primal-spirit.md

3. 03 · _intake0.735

   “It was claimed” is suitably cautious. I’d not be surprised if this were true, however. The rest of the article ought to disturb people’s complacency, too, but I’m not sure it will.

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/organizational-structural-failure-7-autophagy-fail.md

4. 04 · gutenberg0.732

   Well. I must make my defense, then, O Athenians! and endeavor in this so short a space of time to remove from your minds the calumny which you have long entertained. I wish, indeed, it might be so, if it were at all better both for you and me, and that in making my defense I could effect something more advantageous still: I think, however, that it will be difficult, and I am not entirely ignorant what the difficulty is. Nevertheless, let this turn out as may be pleasing to God, I must obey the law and make my defense.

   gutenberg/PG-13726-apology-crito-and-phaedo-of-socrates/PG-13726.txt

5. 05 · gutenberg0.731

   Many of my professionally trained _confrères_ will smile at the irrationalism of this view, and at the artlessness of my essays in point of technical form. But they should be taken as illustrations of the radically empiricist attitude rather than as argumentations for its validity. That admits meanwhile of {x} being argued in as technical a shape as any one can desire, and possibly I may be spared to do later a share of that work. Meanwhile these essays seem to light up with a certain dramatic reality the attitude itself, and make it visible alongside of the higher and lower dogmatisms between…

   gutenberg/PG-26659-the-will-to-believe-and-other-essays-in-popular-philosophy/PG-26659.txt

6. 06 · _intake0.726

   Why should you risk sharing your precious ideas? *Physics showed me why I should do it.* Because you can trust that a better idea might surface after that initial plunge. *An idea, like a wave, when thrown into a bigger body of water creates a powerful wave of momentum that might change the world.*

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/voice-exit-atx-austin-2015-how-can-we-flourish.md

7. 07 · _intake0.726

   When I get criticized for any reason, I have pre-decided to use the bricks thrown at me as cornerstone foundations to my core beliefs. When I burn bridges, I let those fires burn the path I am on. No matter the poor choices I have made, I am never too old, never too bad, never too late, and never too sick to start from scratch once again. I have learned that when I have stumbled, I was still moving forward. Was it ideal or optimal? No, it was not, but I learned a lot from it. We cannot discover “new oceans” unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shoreline at times. We often must embra…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/finding-your-primal-sense.md

8. 08 · yt0.723

   This is enormously important in psychological work on a personal level. So if we find the elixir, it will be shared. It can be hoarded temporarily, but it will come out. And the advantage is everyone benefits, and we are all better off. Apparently we need to learn the same lessons over and over again. We are partly bold, brave, smart adventurers and partly silly fools that shoot ourselves in the foot. OK, we need to be humble, and perhaps we are fools so that we will stay humble. There is great arrogance if great power is gained, and we have to recover from that. So, foolishness allows us to l…

   yt/9PL3M_t7Drs-the-hero-s-journey-of-self-discovery/transcript.txt

9. 09 · gutenberg0.721

   To several of the arguments which have been urged against me, I have thought it useful to reply with some degree of minuteness; not from any taste for controversy, but because the opportunity was favorable for placing my own conclusions, and the grounds of them, more clearly and completely before the reader. Truth on these subjects is militant, and can only establish itself by means of conflict. The most opposite opinions can make a plausible show of evidence while each has the statement of its own case; and it is only possible to ascertain which of them is in the right, after hearing and comp…

   gutenberg/PG-27942-a-system-of-logic-ratiocinative-and-inductive/PG-27942.txt

10. 10 · gutenberg0.718

    The first four essays are largely concerned with defending the legitimacy of religious faith. To some rationalizing readers such advocacy will seem a sad misuse of one's professional position. Mankind, they will say, is only too prone to follow faith unreasoningly, and needs no preaching nor encouragement in that direction. I quite agree that what mankind at large most lacks is criticism and caution, not faith. Its cardinal weakness is to let belief follow recklessly upon lively conception, especially when the conception has instinctive liking at its back. I admit, then, that were I addressing…

    gutenberg/PG-26659-the-will-to-believe-and-other-essays-in-popular-philosophy/PG-26659.txt