Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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Every knock is a boost. ~Elbert Hubbard
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It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home. ~Daphne Guinness
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I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on "Hollyoaks." ~Nathalie Emmanuel
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself. ~Marion Woodman
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they are not teaching because of the financial rewards. ~John Engler
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Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. ~Suzanne Collins
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. ~John Mayall
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder. ~John D. Rockefeller
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing. and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. ~Joey Ramone
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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