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What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.


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No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.



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We see what we believe rather than what we see.



Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.



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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.



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Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.



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Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.



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The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.



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You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.



I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.

I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.




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