"Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation."
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"As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it."
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"If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed"
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"In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another."
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"The State of liberated Being can be reached only by "dying"; but (this) dying does not consist in destruction of the body; one should understand that true death is the extinction of the ideas "I" and "mine.""
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"Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have."
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"What I never understand about a hangover is, where does the breath come from? You know what I mean? I mean, is someone shitting in your mouth?"
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"My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear."
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"Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action."
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"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"
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"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing."
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"A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer."
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"The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not."
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"The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for."
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"Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over."
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"Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty."
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"Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God."
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"Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal."
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"How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do."
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"It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future"."
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