A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. ~James Herbert
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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