"Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust."
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"The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy."
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"The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds."
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"Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give this knowledge; is not theory, it is realization. Cleanse the dust from the mirror, purify your own mind, and in a flash you know that you are Brahman."
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"You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing."
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"I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what... man, I ended up with pockets full of dust."
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"You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold."
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"You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally."
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"She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs."
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"As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed a mania; everyone of means was frantic to possess a thing so controllable, so secure and so free from the dust and danger of the road, and in France in the year 1943 thirty thousand of these new aeroplanes were manufactured and licensed, and soared humming softly into the sky."
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"The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust."
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"All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service."
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"I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet."
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"Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust."
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"All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust."
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"Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle."
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"The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust."
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"Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust."
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"Houses are full of things that gather dust"
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"And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine."
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