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“if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.”
Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.121, Simon and Schuster
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“You can't beat somebody with nobody.”
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“My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The fundamental problem that sparks the ethical project lies in our limited responsiveness to one another. The only way we have to address that problem is through a representative, informed, and engaged conversation.”
Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And I think there is a shift in consciousness among our human species. I think the human species is evolving, spiritually.”
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“Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.”
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“While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark”
Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Here I am as a running back, making a pretty good living, actually doing pretty good.”
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“You have a winner and a loser and that doesn't bother me, I am man enough to accept that.”