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Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.
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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
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Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
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Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
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If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
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The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
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''I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,'' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.
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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
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'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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...when a society is reaching its end, in the last couple of centuries you have... a misplacement of satisfactions. You find your emotional satisfaction in making a lot of money... or in proving to the poor, half-naked people in Southeast Asia that you can kill them in large numbers.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A ''should'' is a ''have to'' with no teeth; it is dead energy.
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A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
Source: Culture and Commitment, 1929-1945 (1973)
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