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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written. – Mark Twain, Autobiography, 1924

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The Divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The Divine likes to be out in the open. It is right here in this very body. Each one of us is a miniature universe, a living shrine. – Morihei Ueshiba

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Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again. – Chinese inscription cited by Thoreau in Walden

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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are. – Kabir

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Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. – D.H. Lawrence, Pornography and Obscenity

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