"You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing."
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"There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied."
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"The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love."
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"The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
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"Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour."
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"If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands."
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"I've never recorded anything I didn't like."
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"Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it."
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"I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself."
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"Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are."
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"This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting."
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"You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go."
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"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion."
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"War is not women's history."
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"That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned."
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"Where do you go to get anorexia?"
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"It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time."
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"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."
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"No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon."
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"Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create."
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