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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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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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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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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 hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
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Society is really coming to a point where they're not asking if women can be funny anymore. We all know they obviously are.
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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
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I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all – or am I?
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I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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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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Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something more, and that Something More is what life is really all about.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
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I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.
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We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
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I take yoga classes, do a mile run, and of course take part in some kind of water sport.
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I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
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Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.
