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Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to…
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Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any…
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware…
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold,…
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot…
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Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes…
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Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but…
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Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and…
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Meditation is your awakening. The moment you awake, sleep disappears and with it all the dreams, all the projections, all expectations, all…
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Early in life, when I first saw waterlilies on the ripples of a lake, I didn't think they were flowers which grew…
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The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste…
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Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the…
— Gerhard Tersteegen
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Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like…
— Anne Sexton
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As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new…
— Dante Alighieri
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The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows…
— Elizabeth Berg
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I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower…
— Lucy Christopher
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