To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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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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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. ~Bonnie Wright
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent. ~Pat Benatar
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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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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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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