"I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?"
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"note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]"
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"What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!"
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"The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance."
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"There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure."
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"I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?"
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"For true worship, only God and the human soul are necessary. It does not depend upon times, or seasons, or occasions. Anywhere and at any time God and person in the bush may meet."
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"Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself."
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"SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong."
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"I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work."
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"Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling."
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"A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends."
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"Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it."
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"A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked."
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"...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges."
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"Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important."
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"time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?"
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"Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does."
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"Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it."
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"Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the appearance of branch-like structures both in coral and in plants, and indeed in some forms of crystal and in certain chemical precipitates."
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