"He's out of his depth on a wet pavement."
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"The wave uniting with its depth is yoga."
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"I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul"
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"The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated."
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"...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding."
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"It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger."
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"Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths."
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"The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him."
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"Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth."
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"Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die."
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"By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames."
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"God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim."
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"I'd love to major in Music. I love what I do, but I want to really understand it, more in depth."
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"The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves."
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"Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law."
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"I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth."
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"Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought."
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"If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns."
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"I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children."
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"Being aware in the moment of right now is just the most important thing. All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues."
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