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How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

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More look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mount

More look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one.

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Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, the

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

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Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you

Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.

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Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, witho

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

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If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The

If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed t

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

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People are taught how to speak, but their major concern shou

People are taught how to speak, but their major concern should be how to keep silent.

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I d

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when yo

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

My time at Honda was amazing. Some of my best times in Formu

My time at Honda was amazing. Some of my best times in Formula One, actually. I might not have won races, just one race, but I had a lot of fun.

And she (the Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undim

And she (the Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigor, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.

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The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics c

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness--a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

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Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which, though e

Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams f

The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in Go

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

...for until that God who rules all the region of the sky...

...for until that God who rules all the region of the sky...has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed...

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There's some ill planet reigns:I must be patient till the he

There's some ill planet reigns:I must be patient till the heavens lookWith an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,I am not prone to weeping, as our sexCommonly are; the want of which vain dewPerchance shall dry your pities: but I haveThat honourable grief lodged here which burnsWorse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,With thoughts so qualified as your charitiesShall best instruct you, measure me; and soThe king's will be perform'd!

William Shakespeare

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

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The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must d

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

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They that have grown old in a single state are generally fou

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

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The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn t

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.

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Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

You must be willing to do the things today others don't do i

You must be willing to do the things today others don't do in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have.

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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

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Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it b

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and i

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

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You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need

You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked out from the darkness in search of the light, and have had a difficult problem in life that you have not been able to solve in spite of great efforts. And then, when the time was fulfilled and God

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Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to

Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.

I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the

I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that , in his second novel, , published in 1935, had borrowed from for his nighttime scene in Trafalgar Square, where Deafie and Charlie and Snouter and Mr. Tallboys and The Kike and Mrs. Bendigo and the rest of the bums and losers keep up a barrage of song snatches, fractured prayers, curses, and crackpot reminiscences. But only on my most recent reading of did I discover, in the middle of the long and intricate mock-Shakespeare scene at the National Library, the line 'Go to! You spent most of it in Georgina Johnson's bed, clergyman's daughter.' So now I think Orwell quarried his title from there, too.

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Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God

Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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