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I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers,…
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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal…
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This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to…
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Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears…
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing…
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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation…
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide…
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.
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A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not…
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It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed…
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Theres something incredible about putting a helmet on just before a game; its a feeling only a football player knows. Your vision…
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I find that when I get casual with my relationship with divinity and when it seems no divine ear is listening and…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of…
— Alexander Lowen
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Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give…
— Thomas Merton
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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
— Francois Fenelon
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From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.
— Lawrence Wright
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People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all…
— Nhat Hanh
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