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San Francisco is where gay fantasies come true, and the problem the city presents is whether, after all, we wanted these particular… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
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My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
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“I did not have an answer for the maestro that day. Instead my answer has been the labor of my life, principally… — Michael Ennis Copy Share Image
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True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“He took the hand that wasn’t holding the bouquet of wildflowers and stared at it, holding it so tightly that she thought… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
“In each case an error as to the true nature and meaning of life reacts on that life itself and produces not… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a… — Alicia Markova Copy Share Image
“Many other inhabitants of the city were similarly afflicted. Every day, more and more people took to saving time, and the more… — Michael Ende, Momo Copy Share Image
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During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps,… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
No degree of prosperity could justify the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make safe… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“He felt her hand creep from her muff into his pocket as they walked the snowy streets to buy their Christmas tree;… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
“People who don’t love math always accuse mathematicians of trying to make math complicated,” Dr. Li had said. “But anyone who does… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
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“I was sitting on the floor, my shoes stupidly pointing at the ceiling. The yelping of emergency vehicles welled up from the… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“The truth of living is proved not by the inevitability of death but by the wonder that we lived at all. Remembering… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
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“is only by means of the sciences of life that the quality of life can be radically changed. The sciences of matter… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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