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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination - aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.
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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.
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The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
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The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering.
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The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
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The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
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The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
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The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir.
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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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