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The real nightmare, worse than the one in which the Big Machine wants to kill you, is the one in which it sees you as irrelevant, or not even as a discrete thing to know.


Benjamin H. Bratton

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GARY F EVANS... Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
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C.S. LEWIS Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
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IAN HUNTER You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
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CRAIG GROESCHEL Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
NAOMI JUDD The one thing that matters is the effort.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
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CAMPBELL SCOTT All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
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MELANIE TREVATHAN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
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And we must mind today.
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H. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
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H. H. MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
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H. H. MUNRO Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
H. H. MUNRO If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
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H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Important things are not things.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liber...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessar...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presiden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
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