"My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves"
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"A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act."
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"Some may never live, but the crazy never die."
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"If you have fun when you practice, you may also learn more and perform better"
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"The specific patterns, out of which a building or a town is made may be alive or dead. To the extent they are alive, they let our inner forces loose, and, set us free; but when they are dead they keep us locked in inner conflict."
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"Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves."
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"It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol."
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"No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God."
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"'The tea is coming!' ...she may want a martini, but make her drink tea."
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"If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all."
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"It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking."
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"We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate."
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"Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on."
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"I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'."
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"Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here."
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"Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness"
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"In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness."
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"There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and kinds of life there may be in this vast and awesome universe."
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"Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY."
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"Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation."
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