George Vaillant Quotes
Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.
Quotes to Explore
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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Intentions count in your actions.
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The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.
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I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
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We are like figures which some great demonstrator draws upon the blackboard of Time. A problem is to be solved, without doubt; what the problem is, we, the figures, cannot know and do not need to know; all we know is that sooner or later we shall be sponged off the board and other figures take our places, and the demonstration go on.
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They shift the moving toyshop of their heart.
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New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.
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The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.
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Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.
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A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.
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If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
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Fashion is a weapon that you can use when you need it.
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Upon the brink of the wild stream He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.
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There is such a shelter in each other.
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I'm a pretty upbeat person. I think I sometimes get cast as these brooding types because I bring light and joy, which hopefully makes them more likable.
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Dr. Bronner's is the best. My mom had Dr. Bronner's around since I was a little kid, and I've used it in the shower as soap ever since.
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Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.
