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"There was no question about it- the girl in the photograph was staggeringly beautiful. She was Miss Canal Zone, a runner-up in the Miss Universe Contest -- and in fact far more beautiful than the winner of the contests. Her beauty had frightened the judges."
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"True fashion should reflect deeper feelings of inner passion for life."
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"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"
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"The beauty of a woman is not in her facial makeup but in the kindness of her soul."
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"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."
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"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"
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"Beauty often depends on not how you look but on who you are."
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"Be awesome! Smile like a flower."
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"How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?"
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"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"
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"The beauty of truth is in its simplicity."
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"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"
Philosophy
"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
Talent
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Earth
"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
Creativity
"To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That's all right. I like to have my heart broken."
Emotion
"I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead."
Philosophy
"The mind reels."
Psychology
"A woman's not a woman till the pills wear off."
Health
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind."
Kindness
"As for national greatness: It is probably true that all nations are great and even holy at the time of death. The Biafrans had never fought before. They fought well this time. They will never fight again. They will never play Finlandia on an ancient marimba again. Peace."
History
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