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Quotes by Writer
"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
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"Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire."
58
"Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs.. bending them back and forth as if pumping water from a well.. He met with meditation teachers, and closed his eyes and narrowed his thoughts until his world shrunk down to a single breath, in and out, in and out."
58
"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."
57
"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
57
"Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them."
57
"I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun."
57
"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
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"Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential."
57
"Take care of your health. Don't look for one quick fix to cure all your ailments. Take the time every day to help your mind, body, and soul heal. It is extremely important for your daily happiness to know that you are supporting your health instead of hurting it."
57
"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."
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"I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is!"
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"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
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"It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done."
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"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish."
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"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil."
Evil,
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"A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall."
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"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."
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"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
56
"On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it."
56
"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid."
56
"In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath."
56
"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."
56
"Could be. I'm a pretty dangerous dude when I'm cornered."Yeah, said the voice from under the table, "you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel."
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"I'd love to be what I have been."
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"Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked didnt I think it odd that I should be present to witness the death of everything and I do think it's odd but that doesnt mean it's not so. Someone has to be here."
56
"If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer."
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"Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie."
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"In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice."
55
"Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things."
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"What happened to me? I asked myself. Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university years, when I thought rich people were evil, a shirt and tie were prison clothes, and life without freedom to get up and go - motorcycle beneath you, breeze in your face, down the streets of Paris, into the mountains of Tibet - was not a good life at all. What happened to me?"
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"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."
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