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“If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.”
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“You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.”
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“God is the nest we build together.”
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“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
Source : Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151
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“It costs to be a friend or to have a friend. There is nothing else in life except motherhood that costs so much. It not only costs time, affection, patience, love, but sometimes a man must even lay down his life for his friends. There is no true friendship without self-abnegation, self-sacrifice.”
Source : Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1803). “What is Worth While?”, p.27
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“We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now.”
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“Evolved? As a dancer? Me? I don’t fall down as much, unless it’s part of the scripted dance. I don’t step on other people’s toes anymore. I think if I started the show a one out of ten dancer, now I am a two and a half.”
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“Life grows lovely where you are.”
Source : Mathilde Blind (2012). “The Ascent of Man”, p.95, The Floating Press
