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4667 Taken quotes by 3231 unique authors
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I want to be taken playfully, not seriously - not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter. Your laughter, your playfulness is the…
— Rajneesh
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When two persons open up to each other just as they are, friendship grows. When two persons are ready to drop their masks, they have…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful moments in life.…
— Rajneesh
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This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the mind…
— Rajneesh
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Nobody asked you about being born, nobody is going to ask you when the time comes for you to be taken away. Then why be…
— Rajneesh
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Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not vice-versa. To me,…
— Rajneesh
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
— Seneca the Younger
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First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin…
— Dave Barry
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.
— Jami Gertz
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
— Iris Murdoch
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If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the bonding-a physical horror…
— Clive Barker
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With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but…
— Helen Keller
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In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of…
— Jimmy Carter
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Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and…
— John Dickinson
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
— Margaret of Valois
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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable…
— Ludwig von Mises
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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim…
— Lysander Spooner
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The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is no historic record…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
— Friedrich Schiller
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