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“The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.”
Source : Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”
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“Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming. This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom; The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.”
Source : Zenkei Shibayama (2012). “A Flower Does Not Talk: Zen Essays”, p.110, Tuttle Publishing
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“On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. I was surprised and hurt.”
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“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”
Source : Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.174, University of Chicago Press
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“After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is”
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“Although we have not assigned God a sexual orientation, a height, or eye color, we have thought nothing of assigning a gender and a religion (God always belongs to the same one we do).”
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“I wait for death and journalists.”
Source : "Genes, Aging and Immortality". Book by Charlotte A. Spencer (p. 6), 2005.
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“Farm animals are just as interesting and intelligent as the dogs and cats who we know a bit betterYet they are treated by the meat industry as though they are inanimate objects with no feelings or personalities.”
