"I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes."
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"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves."
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"The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal."
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"It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington."
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"As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished."
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"I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone."
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"A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed."
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"It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it"
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"You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day."
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"Who realizes what? That is realization."
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"There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes."
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"It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes."
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"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."
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"Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire."
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"Beauty is the result of realizing what is special about you and not focusing on the things you don't like."
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"Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories."
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"The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?"
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"As you experience love and relationships, you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye."
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"Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols."
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"Sometimes if you don't physically attempt something, you don't realize how sick to your stomach or how hard it is."
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