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The universe is so vast and so ageless that the life of one man can only be justified by the measure of his sacrifice.
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
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The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.
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The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.
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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.
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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.
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The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point: This can be done.
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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
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The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
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The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
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The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.
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The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation.
Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966)
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