"Do anything, save to lie down and die!"
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"Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security."
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"If you sit down and talk to a person, it's easy to convince him that apartheid can never save a country and will lead to the slaughtering of innocent people - including his own people."
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"Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong."
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"My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it."
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"My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness."
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"When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working."
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"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."
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"We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life."
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"Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery."
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"There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off."
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"The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk."
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"We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller."
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"The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party."
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"Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick right home. She's down. Now taxi in. Switch off. It's over - but not quite, for the port engine, just as if it knew, as if reluctant at the last to let me go, kicked, kicked, and kicked again, as overheated engines will, then backfired with an angry snorting: Fool! The best is over ...But I did not hear."
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"I like talking about subjects that aren't funny in the first place and making them funny. So anything down and depressing is something I'll talk about."
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"But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin Cause the only way to find your life is to lay your own life down And I believe it's an easy price for the life that we have found"
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"To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes."
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"I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport."
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"We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals"
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