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Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs,…
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If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful…
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Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
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Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban,…
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It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who…
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I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for…
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We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer,…
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The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its…
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its…
— Richard Courant
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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to…
— Francis Bacon
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Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep…
— Thomas Merton
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Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative
— Aristotle
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On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative,…
— Andrea Dworkin
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