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Anonymous

• Work like you don't need the money,
  Love like you've never been hurt,
  And dance like no one's watching.
• Politics (def.): From the Greek words poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning blood-sucking insects.
• Life without a friend is death without a witness. - Spanish Proverb
• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
• If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.
• I am not what I think I am or what you think I am but I am what I think you think I am.
• A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
• Once you give up your principles, everything else is a piece of cake.
• When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
• Quid quid agas, prudenter agas, et respice finem.
  (Whatever you do, do it cautiously, and take account of the end.)
• No battle plan survives contact with the enemy
• Question reality.
•       Team sports is a way a bunch of glory-hogging, insecure, self-centered jerks can prove to themselves that they really aren't, which makes them feel good about themselves. Team sports don't appeal to those who aren't neurotically self-centered and insecure by nature.
• Wisdom is not a thing of the mind, wisdom resides in the heart.
• The IQ of a group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group, divided by the number of people in the group.

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Abu 'Abdullah al-Qurashi.

The one who flatters his own or someone else's ego will never smell the perfume of sincerity.

Ali, Muhammad.

The man without imagination has no wings, he cannot fly.

Alighieri, Dante. THE DIVINE COMEDY

In the middle of the road of my life
I awoke in a dark wood
where the true way was wholly lost.

Adams, John

      We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

Alexie, Sharman.

A warrior did much more than fight ... Warriors fed their families and washed the dishes. Warriors went on Vision Quests and listened to their wives when they went on Vision Quests, too. Warriors picked up their dirty clothes and tried not to watch football games all weekend.

Angela, Spacegirl

Just be yourself and have your crushes and feel crazy and have fun. For all the crap I went through, I wish I could be 15 again. Ah well.

Aquinas, Thomas

Beware of the man of one book.

Aristotle

Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.

Arnold, Matthew. DOVER BEACH

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Attanasio, A.A.. THE LAST LEGENDS OF EARTH

...unshackled from the constraints of linear thinking by the pain of his possession, he had become all his memories.

We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside ourselves diminishes us - because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside us, are illusions that make us forget the emptiness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so we are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we can make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough.

.... Radix

If you want to find a good place to be, no place you find will be good enough. But if you let it all go, if you really empty your head, then any place you are is right. And, even more wonderful, you can be any place at all - even the moon!

You can't get in the temple without laying eyes on the demons.

Thought is a matrix which engenders its own reality. The ideas, concepts, belief-systems that your ancestors trapped have become your trap.

Ego is synthesized like fingernails or hair. It's a carapace, a protective covering, a husk. It surrounds the feeling-self and can never be done away with or the being will die. The most one can hope for is transparency. The ego must be clear. It's never a question of will, of doing something to improve yourself. You are.

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