By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.
~ Lao Zi
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.
~ Lao Zi
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What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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In every era the attempt must be made anew to wrest tradition away from a conformism that is about to overpower it.
― Walter Benjamin
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I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful.
― Ansel Adams
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Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.
~ Arthur Koestler
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Democratic civilization is the first in history to blame itself because another power is working to destroy it.
~ Jean-François Revel
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If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created. Only if we recognize the danger in time can we hope to avert it.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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A Broadway play is so much an event, designed down to the bit parts to explode in your face on one particular night, that it is hard to judge any one of them fairly from the scrawny instructions known as a script.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
~ William Faulkner
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