"It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is."
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"The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink."
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"Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another."
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"Peace does not come through prayer, we human beings must create peace."
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"Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace."
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"Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?"
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"You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts"
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"Without education, confidence does not come."
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"A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating."
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"No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist."
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"I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike."
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"... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught."
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"Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired."
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"Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by."
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"But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best."
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"No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return."
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"No soul willfully does wrong."
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"If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest."
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"One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God."
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"This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot."
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