Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. ~James Herbert
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Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. ~Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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We have a tough schedule this summer, so I have to plan my schedule wisely if I want to be able to last throughout the season. ~Kim Clijsters
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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Everything that happens is meant to be. It is meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it is meant to be disaster. ~Tony Kaye
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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I promote a healthy lifestyle. ~Kim Kardashian
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I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further. ~Donald Glover
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