Quotes 3981 till 4000 of 5261.
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
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The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
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The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.
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The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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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.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
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