"I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%."
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"Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality."
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"The way you silence fear is to give attention to faith."
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"I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions."
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"Whenever the immune system deals successfully with an infection, it emerges from the experience stronger and better able to confront similar threats in the future. Our immune system develops in combat. If, at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger."
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"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
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"Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to his own. Only in suprahuman demands which can hardly be fulfilled do human beings and peoples feel their true and sacred measure."
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"It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin."
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"It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation."
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"The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain."
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"When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself."
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"Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish"
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"If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm."
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"Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks."
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"The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth."
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"Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money."
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"Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give."
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"Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and susceptibility to being wounded that actually gives our individual lives meaning."
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"Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class."
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"Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms."
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