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Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

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And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

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The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

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Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

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A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

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Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

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