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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. – Timothy Leary

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We dont get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what weve chosen to do with our life. – Steve Jobs

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. – Christopher Morley, Thunder on the Left

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To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. – Havelock Ellis

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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