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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
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A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.
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A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper - a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
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A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
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A life which does not go into action is a failure.
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A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
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A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
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A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.
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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
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A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
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A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
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A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samÄdhi.
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