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Quote: Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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George Orwell
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Quote: Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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Voltaire
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Meditation is the dissolution...

Quote: When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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Oscar Wilde
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Quote: I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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George Orwell
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It's a beautiful thing,...

Quote: A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
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Albert Einstein
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A table, a chair,...

Quote: But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on. You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.
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Bruce Lee
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But neither can you...

Quote: It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
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Albert Einstein
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It occurred to me...

Quote: Enjoy yourself — it’s later than you think.
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Socrates
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Enjoy yourself — it’s...

Quote: When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
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Abraham Lincoln
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When I get ready...

Quote: Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
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Voltaire
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Opinion has caused more...

Quote: We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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We must accept finite...

Quote: Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Believe nothing you hear,...

Quote: If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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George Orwell
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If people cannot write...

Quote: Be yourself; everyone else is already taken
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Oscar Wilde
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Be yourself; everyone else...

Quote: I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it
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William Shakespeare
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I like this place...

Quote: There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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Albert Einstein
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There are only two...

Quote: What's done can't be undone.
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William Shakespeare
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What's done can't be...

Quote: War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comforable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
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George Orwell
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War is a way...

Quote: Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
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Winston Churchill
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Politics is almost as...

Quote: The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?
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George Orwell
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The object of terrorism...

Quote: Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.
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Rumi
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Make peace with the universe. Take...

Quote: If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
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Elon Musk
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If you get up...

Quote: It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.
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Stephen Hawking
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It now appears that...

Quote: Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
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Elon Musk
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Nobody wants to buy...

Quote: You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.
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George Orwell
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You're only a rebel...

Quote: Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
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Voltaire
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Divorce is probably of...

Quote: Under 'Reasons for Leaving Last Job', never give the real reason, unless it's money or ambition.
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Anthony Bourdain
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Under 'Reasons for Leaving...

Quote: It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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It is the quality...

Quote: Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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Oscar Wilde
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Sometimes the poor are...

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