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What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance.

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The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

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It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.

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We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased

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Sweet is a grief well ended.

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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

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But he knows that no man is an island.

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The universe is going to help the Warrior.

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Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

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A Warrior knows that a great dream is made up of many different things, just as the light from the sun is the sum of its millions of rays.

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He has the qualities of a rock.

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The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

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How much of human life is lost in waiting.

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

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At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

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