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Quote by Thomas Merton
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imaginat

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness. – Thomas Merton

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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton

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History
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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. – Thomas Merton

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Death
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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. – Thomas Merton

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I dont necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story thats most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. – Beverly Cleary

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I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose. – Elinor Wylie

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I guess what Ive learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. Its limitless. – Cliff Martinez

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You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance. – David Garrick

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We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. – Sir Arthur Eddington

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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. – John Quincy Adams

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Theres no environment. Use your imagination. Theres no fourth wall, whether its the first time youve told this story about her life, or the sixth time. – Jill Clayburgh

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We love the precepts for the teachers sake. – George Farquhar

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