Dogen Quotes
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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Quotes to Explore
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
Fernando Pessoa
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Sexual scandals are especially effective against Republicans who can then also be accused of hypocrisy inasmuch as they're always spouting off about morality and junk like that. Of course, some personal issues such as former Klan membership or leaving the scene of a fatal accident are off limits for obvious reasons
Pat Sajak
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Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.
Orson Scott Card
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If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x × y is less than y.
H. L. Mencken
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Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.
Larry Niven
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When I write 'paradise' I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
Edward Abbey
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Windin' your way down on Baker Street,Light in your head and dead on your feet.Well another crazy day,You'll drink the night awayAnd forget about everything.This city desert makes you feel so cold.It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.And it's taking you so longTo find out you were wrong,When you thought it had everything.
Gerry Rafferty
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
Kate Bernheimer
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Science grows like a weed every year.
Kary Mullis
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I also heard he got busted for smoking weed and he’s really sorry about it and people make mistakes and he’s never gonna do it again.
Justin Bieber
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The maintenance of equilibrium in forward flight is a matter of practice, and can only be learned by repeated personal experiment.
Otto Lilienthal
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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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