inspirational Quotes
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The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
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Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.
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I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.
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He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.
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Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
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It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.
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...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
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Hear the meaning within the word.
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We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
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I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?
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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
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Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
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Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.
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I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
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Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.
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When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you offyou just wait in the shade until they come around again.
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The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow - the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.
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I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.
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It's just such a freeing thing to set these great challenges for yourself, to travel, to learn more about the world, to just go out there and get crazy and get free and get strong.
