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“Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.”
Source : Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.60, Penguin
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“A lot of people are not comfortable being apart from the group, from the whole herd, and listening to the inner voice. They just follow what the crowd does and wear what the crowd wears and think what the crowd thinks. They get very caught up in doing what the world says is the cool thing to do and living the way the rest of the world lives. Once we make a decision to break away from that and not be part of the herd anymore - by going inside and finding our own voice - then life just becomes magical.”
Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
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“If moment by moment you can keep your mind clear then nothing will confuse you.”
Source : Shengyan, Sheng-Yen (2005). “Getting the Buddha Mind: On the Practice of Chan Retreat”, p.100, North Atlantic Books
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“As both a conservative and a Republican, I confess that we deserve to lose this year. We have governed badly and have earned the wrath of voters, who will learn in due course how inadequate the nostrums of liberal Democrats are to the crisis of our times. If I cannot in good faith cast a vote against the Bush years by voting for Obama, I can at least do so by withholding my vote from McCain.”
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“I was trained to be an actor, not a star.”
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“I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.”
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“I had orders to report to Brigadier General Lindsey, and he said to me, "Well, York, I hear you have captured the whole damned German army." And I told him I only had 132.”
Source : "Understanding the Odyssey : A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historic Documents" by Claudia D. Johnson, 2003.
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“Whenever we criticize ourselves, we compound the issue.”
