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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
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The old, like children, talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
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The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
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The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners.
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The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
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The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.
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The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
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The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
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The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.
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The reality is the world's shifted; the world's evolved. We now measure ourself by total device space. We have a much bigger opportunity than we've ever had in the past to grow our business, but we have to rethink how we look at our business.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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