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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
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A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but…
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If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year,…
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I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are…
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A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.
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Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.
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A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
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To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it…
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You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
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An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest.…
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The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring.…
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There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its…
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its…
— John Cage
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Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.
— Napoleon Hill
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Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent…
— Antonin Scalia
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The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who…
— Jean Giraudoux
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Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the…
— James Madison
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It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global…
— Paul Davies
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It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can…
— Neil Gaiman
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Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge…
— Susan Sontag
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Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in…
— Lorrie Moore
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