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If you can do it then why do it?


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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop



Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.



A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.



You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.



You are all a lost generation.

You are all a lost generation.



America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.



In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.



Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.



What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.



That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.





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Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.

Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.



The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.



War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as well as physical, brain as well as muscles, and stamina as well as courage.

War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as well as physical, brain as well as muscles, and stamina as well as courage.



All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.



As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.



Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the undisturbed contentment of bliss.

Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the undisturbed contentment of bliss.



Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.



We always come back to our first love.

We always come back to our first love.



And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime.

And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime.




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