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I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.


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The past is never where you think you left it.

The past is never where you think you left it.



Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.



You waste life when you waste good food.

You waste life when you waste good food.



You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.



Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.



The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.



What we need now is endless courage.

What we need now is endless courage.



Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.



I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.



I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.





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Everyone desires significance but not everyone is ready to go through the process of being ‘pregnant’ with the requirements that would make them to be significant.

Everyone desires significance but not everyone is ready to go through the process of being ‘pregnant’ with the requirements that would make them to be significant.



I have a little moral trouble with the term “mankind”, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term “humanity” over it, and the term “human” over “man”.

I have a little moral trouble with the term “mankind”, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term “humanity” over it, and the term “human” over “man”.



If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones.

If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones.



The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.



The idea here is simple, if you can dream it, it is possible.

The idea here is simple, if you can dream it, it is possible.



Leadership is not about me, it's about our country.

Leadership is not about me, it's about our country.



Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still-are.

Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still-are.



I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep.

I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep.



NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.

NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.



It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country.

It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country.




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