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  • You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.
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    Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Taken Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Taken Quotes , Unjust Quotes
  • But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Taken Quotes , Law Quotes
  • The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.
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    Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Taken Quotes , Apology Quotes
  • Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Taken Quotes
  • When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it is observed. The Buddha himself taught differently according to the place, the occasion and the situation of those who were listening to him.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Taken Quotes
  • TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything. But it's bullsh**t! Reflection is crucial.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Arkin Quotes , Taken Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.
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    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Taken Quotes , Men Quotes