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“Renunciation mind has nothing to do with sacrificing. When we talk about renunciation, somwhow we get all scared because we think that we have to give up some goodies, somehing valuable, some important things. But there is nothing that is important; there is nothing that is solidly exisiting. All that you are give up is actually a vague identity . You realize thigs is not true; it's noe the ultimate. This how and why to develop renunciation”
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“Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I'd long forgotten. Most of all, I am wishing for something to fasten all these gems, maybe something to hold them in a continuity that I can comprehend.”
Source : Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.98, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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“I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt,”
Source : "Ann B. Davis, Alice on 'Brady Bunch,' dies" by Catherine E. Shoichet, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2014. 
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“I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.”
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“I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense--but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd--for sense cannot be counterfeited.”
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“Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.”
Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.18, Kent State University Press
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“Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ”
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“I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.”
