"The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment."
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"If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear."
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"It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else."
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"The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen."
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"To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error."
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"The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable."
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"Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them."
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"If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others."
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"May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung."
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"The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently."
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"Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood."
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"Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be."
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"We're seeing that God's word and His principles do work. They may not work overnight but they are powerful and when we apply them in the way He shows us to apply them in life then we're going to see positive consequences."
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"Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed."
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"Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us."
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"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."
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"But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I’m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one."
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"Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid."
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"How much an ill word may empoison liking!"
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"Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation."
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