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Where dost thou careless lie,
Buried in ease and sloth?
Knowledge that sleeps, doth die;
And this security,
It is the common moth,
That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio XXIII, An Ode, to Himself, lines 1-6. -
Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell. The saloon hasn't one leg to stand on.
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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity.
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Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
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Woman reduces us all to a common denominator.
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Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
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Words like ''freedom,'' ''justice,'' ''democracy'' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
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World can be a bewildering place, and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps.
Tales from Firozsha Baag (2008) 117 -
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
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Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.
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Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.
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