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"Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way."
"The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril."
"The progress of the Way seems retreating."
"Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?"
"When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way."
"If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering."
"Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root."
"The sage's Way is to act and not to contend."
"I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great."
"If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life."
"The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things."
"Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible."
"To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made."
"Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify."
"My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible."
"Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief."
"These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien"
"The way is shut. Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. The way is shut, his voice said again. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut."
"I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music."
"The way I grew up and the neighborhood I come from, when you know somebody's beating you and you still let it happen, then you're a victim. You're no longer a man when you know something is happening and you don't stand up. So that's just how we raised."
