The world […] is indeed a strange and deeply mysterious place, forever changing and remaking itself anew. But this is not a novel condition, our world hasn’t only recently become bizarre and temporary, it has been so ever since its inception, and it will continue to be such until its end—mystifying and forever in a state of flux.
~ Nick Cave
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That’s all of us are: Amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.
~ Charlie Chaplin
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If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxury.
~ Cicero
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
~ Ram Dass
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
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Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
~ Tom Stoppard
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Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
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I can do nothing without nature. I do not know how to make things up.
~ Manet
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No country ever was built by people sleeping in. Austria was not built by people sleeping in. America was not built by people sleeping in. People struggled, people suffered, people worked their asses off to build this country.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
~ William Godwin
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If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.
~ Ram Dass
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I always tell young people to find a path in life that you can embrace and enjoy rather than something that you’re expected to do. That’s what makes life interesting. And once you achieve a certain level of success, no matter where you are, what you’re doing, don’t be content with that level. Push yourself to another level. People that are successful are always pushing.
~ Ed Viesturs
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[T]his is quite central to my fiction and to my analysis of the problems of creating a new nation today. Obviously, we can’t go back to a system in which every man is turning up in the village square—that’s in the past. But we have to find a way of dealing with the problems created by the fact that somebody says he’s speaking on your behalf, but you don’t know who he is. This is one of the problems of the modern world.
~ Chinua Achebe
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong […] In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
~ Richard Feynman
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This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
~ Shakespeare
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The opposite of a true statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may be another profound truth.
~ Niels Bohr
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To someone who asked Newton how he had managed to construct his theory, he could reply: ‘By thinking about it all the time.’ There is no greatness without a little stubbornness.
~ Albert Camus
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Whoever wants life must go softly towards life, softly as one would go towards a deer and fawn that are nestling under a tree. One gesture of violence, one violent assertion of self-will and life is gone. […] But with quietness, with an abandon of self-assertion and a fullness of the deep true self one can approach another human being, and know the delicate best of life, the touch.
~ D.H. Lawrence
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The real measure of our wealth is how much we’d be worth if we lost all our money.
~ John Henry Jowett
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We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn—the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres.
~ William Mackergo Taylor
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