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The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.


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I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.



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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.



Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.



The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.


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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.



If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.



You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.



Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.



The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.





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This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.



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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.

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There's the young Jon Voight and the old Jon Voight.



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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.



One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

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