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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. - William Wordswort

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. – William Wordsworth

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. – William Wordsworth

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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. – George Orwell

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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why were here: Were here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature. – Rainn Wilson

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Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. – Chuck Palahniuk

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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, thats totally nonsense. – Dalai Lama

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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so. – Muhammad Iqbal

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I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs. – E.F. Schumacher

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What I do know is that if one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. – Anchee Min, Becoming Madame Mao

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