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A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
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It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
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How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.
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Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.
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Ambition beats genius 99% of the time
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Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.
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It's an honor to be considered in the same breath, but I'm not Michael Jordan. I'm the first Chamique Holdsclaw. And I think that's where the women's game has to get to, when women are recognized on their own.
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As you get older you also start to lose your anger a bit.
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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
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American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.