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The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
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The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
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The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
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The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
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The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
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The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Their road will be long and hard, for the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces, success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again.
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose
So the Bible said and it still is news
Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own.God Bless The Child -
Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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Theorists can create all sorts of theories which go beyond the Standard Model. But there's not one bit of experimental evidence to point out which way you should go.
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There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.
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There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
The Big Picture: An American Commentary (1991)
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