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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

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When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.

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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

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If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

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And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

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In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

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Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

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A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

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In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

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