"I'm looking for Miss Right, or at least Miss Right Now"
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"I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge."
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"My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes"
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"That's the formaldehyde. That's why Granny's so well-preserved."
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"What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?"
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"You'd think all of these "atypical" somethings would add up to a typical something"
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"If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers."
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"[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm."
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"Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself."
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"The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert."
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"With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga. . . . On the other side of the Ganga a big plot of land will be acquired, where unmarried girls or Brahmacharini widows will live; devout married women will also be allowed to stay now and then. Men will have no concern with this Math."
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"Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned."
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"The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?"
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"Tithe in kind where your spirit is fed."
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"The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you."
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"Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom."
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"Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates"
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"Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise"
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"Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena"
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"Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all."
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