The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~Robert Smithson
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. ~Robert M. Parker
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Gossip is hardly uplifting. ~Ginger Rogers
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena? ~Dan Rather
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character. ~Pamela Anderson
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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