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I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
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The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the…
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However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality,…
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Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is…
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No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that…
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Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.
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It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
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Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India
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I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man…
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Art is both creation and recreation.
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Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
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Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because…
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India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal…
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Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this…
— Clarence Day
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
— Salman Rushdie
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Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a…
— Ken Kesey
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I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights.…
— Haruki Murakami
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