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Quotes by Author
"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."
123
"How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that."
122
"Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."
121
"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred."
120
"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."
119
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
118
"It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed."
114
"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."
113
"Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people."
113
"The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class."
112
"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
112
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
112
"The weakest link in any chain of security is not the technology itself, but the person operating it; iron gates have no compassion to appeal to, nor fears to exploit, nor insecurities to use to one's advantage. They are, however, operated by us " by beings of unlimited vulnerability and limited energy. Why waste time brute-forcing what can be easily circumvented by a clever façade and a crimson tongue?"
108
"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
106
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
105
"In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love."
105
"Fighting for peace is not the solution,but loving for peace is the solution."
104
"I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."
104
"Have you seen what wolves do to their prey? But they do mate for life."
104
"If time is money and you wasted my time, then give me back my money!"
103
"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."
102
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
102
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
101
"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."
101
"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" - and find that there is no death."
101
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