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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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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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[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life...
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[Officer standing on a mountain crest:] Beautiful view. Is there one for the enlisted men?
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[One soldier to another aiming a gun at a mouse:] Aim between the eyes, Joe. Sometimes they charge when they're wounded.
Willie & Joe: Overseas, 1943-1945, p. 123 -
[Speaking of Reggie Jackson and George Steinbrenner:] The two of them deserve each other. One's a born liar, the other's convicted.
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.
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A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
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A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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A politician is one that would circumvent God.
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
Epigrams (1911) p.356 -
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Insecurity of Freedom -
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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