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Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).Jess C. Scott
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment..'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.Bell Hooks
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Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.M. Scott Peck
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Life is a long lesson in humility.J.m. Barrie
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I used to think the world was broken down by tribes, ' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.Sherman Alexie
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Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.Friedrich Nietzsche
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Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime–if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more–was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.Jess C. Scott
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Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things–though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.Jess C. Scott
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Dear Child, Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are in heaven because of their cleverness and ability to get away with things. Travel past them because they don't understand who they have become and never will. These type of people feel justified in revenge and will never learn mercy or forgiveness because they live by comparison. They are the people that don't care about anyone, other than who is making them feel confident. They don’t understand that their deity is not rejoicing with them because of their actions, rather he is trying to free them from their insecurities, by softening their heart. They rather put out your light than find their own. They don't have the ability to see beyond the false sense of happiness they get from destroying others. You know what happiness is and it isn’t this. Don’t see their success as their deliverance. It is a mask of vindication which has no audience, other than their own kind. They have joined countless others that call themselves “survivors”. They believe that they are entitled to win because life didn’t go as planned for them. You are not like them. You were not meant to stay in hell and follow their belief system. You were bound for greatness. You were born to help them by leading. Rise up and be the light home. You were given the gift to see the truth. They will have an army of people that are like them and you are going to feel alone. However, your family in heaven stands beside you now. They are your strength and as countless as the stars. It is time to let go! Love, Your Guardian Angel.Shannon L. Alder
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To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life–if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they–unlike most human beings–have the means of production, and human beings, because they–unlike all companies–have the means of reproduction.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Many millions of pregnancies–many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child–were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child, something or some of the things that they, the parent, did not do or did not do successfully.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Some people will hate you for not loving them.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to give someone or some people a curable STD.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Some women’s greatest achievement is sleeping with a man who is rich, famous, and/or wanted by many women, whereas some women’s greatest achievement is refusing to sleep with such a man.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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O' melancholy, hectic chill for human soul, herewith dismal presence, any spirit does descent.Nithin Purple
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There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.Haruki Murakami
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Crazy by definition is Knowing that true sanity is A figment of the educated mindCaleb Warta
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The movie Koyaanisqatsi shows non-commented time-lapse footage and focuses our attention on the very rhythm of our civilized modern life and nature. A marijuana high can do something for a user similar to what this time-lapse footage does. The enhancement of episodic memory and the acceleration of associative streams of memories can alter and enhance our recognition of patterns in our lives in various ways. If we are presented with quick associative chains of past experiences, we can see a pattern in a body of information that is usually not at once presented to our “inner eye” as such. .Sebastian Marincolo
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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.Richard Feynman
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Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Love is not the answer, peace is. Throughout my whole life I have experienced and seen others use love as a reason to treat people with unkindness by being controlling, jealous, shouting in anger, and projecting guilt and shame. If you love someone but there is not peace in your heart when you think of that person then your work is not done. Do not stop at love, continue all the way towards the freedom of inner peace. Love starts when peace begins. Without peace love is simply a mask for our insecurity, judgment, and egoic attachments.Alaric Hutchinson
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Leave your excuses and live your dreams!Paul F. Davis
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Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.Albert Einstein
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This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.Steven Johnson