"Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly"
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"You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great."
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"There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of miles of intervening void."
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"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
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"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
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"The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story."
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"The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver."
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"For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life."
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"It's not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful no matter how it all turns out. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
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"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."
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"I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other."
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"The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."
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"Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already."
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"I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs."
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"Being a thoughtful vegan makes our time on this Earth more peaceful and joyous, because you get to have a hand in promoting and increasing the happiness, good health and well-being of others -- both animal and human -- rather than being an instrument of their suffering and death."
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"Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then it may be that patience and time may produce, out of the spectrum-viewing sight, true vision, and you will behold colors other than these mortal hues, you will see pearls instead of stones. Pearls, did I say? Nay more, you will become a sea, you will become a sun traveling the sky."
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"That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters."
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"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."
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"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."
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"That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward."
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