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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.
Graeme Murphy
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Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
Joseph Jarman
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
Liu Xiaobo
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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.


Frank McCourt
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.


William Blake
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Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.
Thurston Moore
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People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
Edward Norton
A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.
Vladimir Putin
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We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.


Malcolm Gladwell
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My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
Lasse Hallstrom
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I had hippie parents, and I found it difficult to figure out how to rebel against them.


Stewart Butterfield
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The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.
Marianne Williamson
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Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.


Erma Bombeck
Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.
Mary Gaitskill
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Charles Caleb Colton
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I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.


Evelyn Keyes
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If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.
Mos Def
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My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.
Tyson Chandler
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