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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines…
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a…
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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes…
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The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand…
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Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have…
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Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments…
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of…
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The supply of government exceeds demand.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the…
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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations…
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…
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Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity.…
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The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There…
— Eckhart Tolle
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
— James Joyce
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We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be…
— M. William Phelps
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The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.
— Paul Schrader
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For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it…
— Alan Watts
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From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my…
— Hermann Hesse
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Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the…
— Jose Saramago
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What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all…
— George R. R. Martin
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Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
— Jacqueline Carey
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