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I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.

I don't want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something.... I base my apprehension on nothing more definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason.

In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.

Nearly all spiritual practices are based on attention. In fact, whenever you think you have lost the path, or whenever you feel confused by esoteric terminology or technique, remember that all these techniques or teachings are various ways to help you learn to pay attention.

Happiness doesn't just flow from success; it actually causes it.

When you strip away the rhetoric, preservation is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link us with our past in a meaningful way, and that have plenty of good use left in them.

The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.

Somehow don't be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

The more you use the power within you, the more you will draw it to you.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

I have used, you know, marijuana ... since Ive been in the league.

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

I'm too impatient to use a tripod.

If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.

It's not something that I can put on and take off anymore, like I said, I've had my years of confusion and wondering who I really (was) and why and how do I live my life and make sense of it all, but I'm not confused about that any longer. I think the world might be -- but I'm not.

He let Shane drop back down in his chair, and walked out, back stiff. Furious. Shane sat with his hands clutching at the armrests. He exchanged a stunned look with Eve, and they both stood up at once. "No," Shane said. "I did it. Let me fix it." He went off after Michael. Eve chewed her lip and said, "Well, we're either going to see half the house destroyed, or their bromance is going to go all the way.

Oddly enough, I've always - I've never actually seen "The Alamo" itself, actually. So I don't really have the association of "Green Leaves of Summer" as being "The Alamo" theme. Oddly enough, I grew up watching kung fu movies. They would use the theme "Green Leaves of Summer" in a lot of needle drops in kung fu movies a lot. So I was actually more familiar with it in a Bruce Li movie than I was actually from the John Wayne film.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?