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Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.
Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.
You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.
It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.
It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.
The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.
There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.
Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life
Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.
Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.
Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.
I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.
It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.
No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.
Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system
If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)
Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.
One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.
[Margaret Thatcher] was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew.
I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists.
Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.
Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.
I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.
Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.
He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.