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Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
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Full effort is full victory.
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The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues
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The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.
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Lucky Charms?†I asked. “Magically delicious,†he explained. “Requisite for any sort of building project.†I shook my head, still amazed at how he had managed to weasel his way over here. “This isn’t a date.†He cut me a scandalized look. "Obviously. I’d bring Count Chocula for that.
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Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.
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For every hiker, climber or canoeist who gets into trouble, there are thousands more who don't. Peter Bronski's compelling account of misadventures in the Adirondacks is a necessary corrective for those who go into the mountains unwary of the dangers.
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A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of.
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What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.
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In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.
