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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
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In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.
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In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
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In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.
Contact (1985) Ch. 18 (p. 313) -
In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
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In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.
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In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
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In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
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In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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In our Country one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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