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Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?


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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.



There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.



The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.



It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.



If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...



I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.



be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.



What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.



The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.



The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.





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...and I shut off my anxious heart and my nervous head as dusk descended into another night, another meaningless merging, another attempt to find myself as I gave myself away.



The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.



If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.



No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.

No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.



Forget goals. Value the process.

Forget goals. Value the process.



I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.

I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.



I'm starved for different light, a different sun,different sky.

I'm starved for different light, a different sun,different sky.



I've always lived by the ocean and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and being able to smell the ocean breeze.

I've always lived by the ocean and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and being able to smell the ocean breeze.



I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something




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