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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition…
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who…
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour,…
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to…
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour,…
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To preserve the integrity of the tradition, we have to distinguish between what is central to that integrity and what is peripheral.…
— Stephen Batchelor
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The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by…
— John Pawson
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We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the…
— Sherry Turkle
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Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's…
— Carl Sagan
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Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is…
— Francis Crick
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Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact…
— Hilary Mantel
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I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.
— Alan Moore
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The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The…
— Said Nursi
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