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| We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities. |
Aldous Huxley |
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| The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster -- a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation. |
George McGovern |
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| It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate. |
George McGovern |
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| I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. |
George McGovern |
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| The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it , you will live along some distant day into your answers. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| Live the questions. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision. |
Gary Collins |
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| Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart for God now accepteth thy works.N.B. Eat, Drink and be merry. See also Luke 1219 |
Ecclesiastes 97 |
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| Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| Why love if losing hurts so much We love to know that we are not alone. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor' They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey. |
Clive Staples Lewis |
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| The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. |
Hellen Keller |
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| When one door of happiness closes, another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. |
Hellen Keller |
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| No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. |
Hellen Keller |
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| I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something I will not refuse to do something I can do. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world. |
Hellen Keller |
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| The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. |
Hellen Keller |
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| I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound. |
Hellen Keller |
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| The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. |
Hellen Keller |
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| As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. |
Hellen Keller |
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| We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. |
Hellen Keller |
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| College isn't the place to go for ideas. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. |
Hellen Keller |
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| I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. |
Hellen Keller |
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| I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. |
Hellen Keller |
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| It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. |
Hellen Keller |
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| It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. |
Hellen Keller |
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| One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom. |
Hellen Keller |
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| There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. |
Hellen Keller |
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| When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. |
Hellen Keller |
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| One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. |
Hellen Keller |
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| We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. |
Hellen Keller |
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| I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. |
Hellen Keller |
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| There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. |
Hellen Keller |
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| People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. |
Hellen Keller |
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| Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. |
Hellen Keller |
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| The highest result of education is tolerance. |
Hellen Keller |
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| You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries... |
Israel Zangwill |
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| In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera. |
Israel Zangwill |
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| The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it. |
Israel Zangwill |
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| The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition. |
Israel Zangwill |
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| The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people. |
Hair |
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| Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue. |
Don Marquis |
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| Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. |
Don Marquis |
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| Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. |
Don Marquis |
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| When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him 'Whose' |
Don Marquis |
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