"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."
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"And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death."
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"I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other."
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"Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet."
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"Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes."
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"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
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"The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer."
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"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong."
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"To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness."
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"AND THEN SOME... these three little words are the secret to success. People that follow this are thoughtful of others; considerate and kind...and then some. They are good friends and neighbors...and then some. I am thankful for people like this, for they make the world a better place. Their spirit of service is summed up in these three little words...AND THEN SOME."
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"I think of myself as a human being."
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"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
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"Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?"
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"Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy tools, not chosen by thoughtful people, to be used only when there is no choice, and with a calm, still mind, without enjoyment. To enjoy using weapons is to enjoy killing people, and to enjoy killing people is to lose your share in the common good. It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented. It is right that a victor in war be received with funeral ceremonies."
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"The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body."
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"It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet"
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"It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different."
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"How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!"
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"When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools."
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"I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent"
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