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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
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[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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“If, as has already been observed, I see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg, or arm, of another person, I naturally shrink and draw back my own leg, or my own arm: and when it does fall, I feel it in some measure, and am hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part II (1759) -
A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
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As contraband, fugitive slaves could be collected and used by a Union army just as any other property could be collected and used, and nobody was in any way committed on any side of the slavery issue itself.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
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But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.
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