"We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are."
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"Why does the thin grey strand Floating up from the forgotten Cigarette between my fingers, Why does it trouble me?"
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"Floating screw - that's what people used to call me."
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"Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating."
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"Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought."
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"Im gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something. To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are!"
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"I like people to look like they're floating."
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"Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?"
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"The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain."
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"When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank."
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"That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities."
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"The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect."
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"There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight."
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"These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating."
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"I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist."
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