Octavio Paz Quotes
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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People hate the feeling that technology is dragging them into the future, that they're not really following what's happening, but being forced to be involved. Even if it makes their life better, it still feels like it's happening against their will.
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The only problem is time.
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I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.
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Men, knowing not how to handle the tool of the mind, have become used to leaning on others and on habit; and, owing to that, this splendid tool, the human mind, has in fact become unreliable through neglect.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
