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Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. — H. M. Tomlinson
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures. — Susan Jeffers
I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences… — Jean Giraudoux
Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by… — Baron d'Holbach
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything… — Pablo Picasso
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others. — Walter Lippmann
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go… — Clarence Day
We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us. — W. Somerset Maugham
The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it… — George Santayana
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out. — Arthur Koestler
There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some… — Alexander Shulgin
I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts… — Ken Kesey
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been… — Mary McCarthy
Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs. — W. Somerset Maugham
If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual… — Cyril Connolly
For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes… — Martin Luther
Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles. — Charles Spurgeon
Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open… — Paul Tournier
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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