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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are foun

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. – Simone Weil

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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. – Simone Weil

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communication
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Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else. – Simone Weil

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State
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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. – Simone Weil

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God
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. – George Santayana

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For even in dreams a good deed is not lost. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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Dreams

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Dreams

The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said thats just got to be the name. That was in 1975. – Graham Russell

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For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. – Bible

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Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing. – Kurt Busch

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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. – Mariane Moore, “A Grave,” Collected Poems, 1951

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