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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. – Ben Stein

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If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I dont know what they are. In their eyes is peace. – Ben Stein

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Peace
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Its amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. – Ben Stein

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amazing
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The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. – Ben Stein

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Knowledge
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The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. – Nicolas Chamfort

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In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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Self-Discovery

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Flight to Arras, 1942

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Self-Discovery

Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. – William Shakespeare, “Coriolanus”

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Self-Discovery

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I think the things that perhaps sad really is that younger people havent come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50s when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didnt win the Tony Award. – Andrew Lloyd Webber

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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. – Thomas Huxley

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This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. – Prem Rawat

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. – Henry Miller

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