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The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
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The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yet absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
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The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.
Source: In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996) -
The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.
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The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
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The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.
Source: The Human Stain (2000) -
The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
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The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.
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The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation.
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