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What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they..
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I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.
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You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling of physical exertion and speed and technique all wrapped into one.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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One of my favorite colors is no color at all.
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Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.
Colson Whitehead
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In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
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People entertain me more than I entertain them.
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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
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Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
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Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.
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If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
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It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.
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People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.
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Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?
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How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.
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... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.
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If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.
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We cannot allow activism to be stifled because of all the paranoia going around.
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I know many of you would say "What about the Bible?" The Bible says this, the Bible says that, the Bible is the inspired Word of God. I think the Bible is the inspired word of man - about God, and some of that is now expired.
