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“Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.”
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“More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource - when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually.”
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“It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person”
Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2015). “Green Earth”, p.673, Del Rey
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“If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.”
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“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
Source : John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”
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“The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.”
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“Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.”
Source : Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift (1757). “The Works of Sir William Temple Bart,: Complete in Four Volumes Octavo. : To which is Prefixed, The Life and Character of the Author”, p.429
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“I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.”
Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt