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		All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Philip Gilbert Hamerton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In waking, eating, working, dreaming, sleeping,Serving, meditating, chanting, divinely loving,My soul constantly hums, unheard by any;God, God, God!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paramahansa Yogananda
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring throughout the cosmos. Tracing it to such exalted origins, I begin to understand more deeply the essence of our art and its elemental power over the human soul. Man, being a creature of Nature and subject to the cosmic influences that inform all earthly beings, must needs have been under the sway of that music from his earliest days; his organism reverberated with its vibrations and received it's rhythmic impulses.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bruno Walter
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Diane Ackerman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alexandre Dumas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lawrence "Kris" Parker
			
			
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		I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Saint Augustine
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jerry Brown
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Humphry Davy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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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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		Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jean-Jacques Rousseau
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My heart yields dividends unseen; thou art my soul's annuity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Catherynne M. Valente
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Yoko Ono
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Oscar Wilde
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		That's just a part of your soul. I couldn't be complacent about that no matter how much I wanted to. Sometimes thinking I have to write songs for an album feels like I have to study for an exam. Then as soon as I start writing I remember how much I love the process. We both do.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Leon Eric Brooks III
			
			
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		There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Yousuf Karsh
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree, outside the city........I'll tell these things to God, and he'll laugh, I think and he'll remind me of the parts I forgot, the parts that were his favorite. We'll sit and remember my story together, and then he'll stand and put his arms around me and say, "well done," and that he liked my story. And my soul won't be thirsty anymore. Finally he'll turn and we'll walk toward the city, a city he will have spoken into existence a city built in a place where once there'd been nothing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Donald Miller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . . . [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ze'ev Jabotinsky