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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.
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Thinking is good, but excessive thinking is not. Between thoughts if there is a period of thoughtlessness, thoughts will be fresh and pathbreaking. A thinker will be able to cultivate a strain of healthy thoughts only when he pays attention to thoughtlessness also.
Source: Thought at Sunrise (2007) -
All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
Source: Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do -
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
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A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.
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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
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Between the famous and the infamous there is but one step.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
Source: Al de mooie paarden (1992) 244 -
Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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