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Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

—Henry Miller

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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

—Lewis Mumford

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I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

—Jean-Michel Basquiat

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

—Woody Allen

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As for our majority... one is enough.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

—Franklin P. Jones

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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

—Plato

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We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity — but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our "biography," our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit cards. . . . It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely for our security. So when they are all taken away, will we have any idea of who we really are?
    Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?

—Sogyal Rinpoche

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It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives, they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.

—14th Dalai Lama

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It cuts us off from life, from vitality, from the alive sun and the alive earth, as nothing can. Nothing, not even the most fanatical dogmas of an ironbound religion, can insulate us from the inrush of life and inspiration as money can.

—D. H. Lawrence

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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

—Phyllis Bottome

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The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

—Unknown

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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

—John Maynard Keynes

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The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non- payment of debts is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

—Simone Weil

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