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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men."

Life Beautiful Happiness
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful, though beauty had not been intended. I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive."

Beautiful Answers Unity
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees."

Hands Beautiful Stupid
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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so dependent on social approval. You can be a little more eccentric. You can be more alone. And you can examine loneliness and boredom instead of being afraid of them. There is such an art and a possibility of aging."

Art Beautiful Loneliness
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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"When humans come together with a true spirit of dealing with the mystery collaboratively, it's incredibly beautiful."

Beautiful Together Spirit
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Viktor E. Frankl Psychiatrist, Neurologist
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"We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies."

Beautiful Death Symphony
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Tennessee Williams Playwright
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"Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?"

Beautiful Giving Up Letting Go
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful."

Moving Beautiful Style
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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater."

Mean Beautiful Women
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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink."

Beautiful Wise Ink
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Ray Bradbury Author
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"We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose."

Men Beautiful Dog
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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
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"We are actually starting to manipulate our bodies, because we can, into a shape. We are becoming our own art. But what happens for me is that it desexualizes everything. You know, you start to look more and more polished, more and more lacquered and you look like a beautiful car. Does anyone want to sleep with you? Does anyone want to touch you? Does anyone want to kiss you? Maybe not, because you're too scary."

Art Beautiful Sleep
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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
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"First of all, I love women. But I lust after beautiful women in the way that I lust after a beautiful piece of sculpture - this will probably get me in trouble - or a beautiful car. I believe everyone's on a sliding scale of sexuality. There are moments where I am sexually attracted to women. But it doesn't overpower my first impulse; my lust for them is the same as my lust for beauty in all things."

Believe Beautiful Car
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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
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"I try to be nice, I try to respect other people, but over the years I've learned that all this stuff we do is a bunch of crap. That doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?"

Mean Beautiful Nice
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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
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"I think you should suffer sometimes to be attractive and beautiful, so I cut the clothes very slim because I like to feel the clothes on my body."

Thinking Beautiful Cutting
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