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If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.
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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
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There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.
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Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.
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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
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Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
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To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
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If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
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Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
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Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.
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My father was an amazing man. No person is perfect, and no father-son relationship is perfect. He wanted me to live my life my way and never think about what he would have done or what he would have wanted to do.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
