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Guns don't kill people. People who say "Guns don't kill people" kill people. With guns.

—Rob Delaney

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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

—Sam Brown

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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

—Walt Whitman

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If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

—Lucy Larcom

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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

—Vladimir Nabokov

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Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

—John Dryden

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Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

—Sol LeWitt

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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

—James Whistler

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When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

—Prince Philip

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

—Samuel Goldwyn

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Love prefers twilight to daylight.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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I thought I wanted his love, but really I wanted his pity. I wanted to quit. But he wouldn't let me. "A good doctor can cure your illness, but only the greatest doctor can show you you were never sick," Roshi has said.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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Zen is like chemotherapy for me. It's brutal medicine that makes you go bald, but it beats the alternative.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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You'd never walk into the forest with the radio blasting and expect wild animals to appear by your side. Yet it never occurs to you to unplug the inner jukebox and get quiet inside so that a natural, organic state of mind can reorganize you and your life from within.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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Zen attacks that one last thing you hold dear: your precious self-conception. It unravels any notion of a freestanding, unconditional "I" and shows it to be a lie, a fabrication, a construction. True realization, the old masters tell us, takes bone-crushing effort. We pulverize the very skeleton of ego—upon which the meat and skin and organs of our illusions hang—and we do it through intense, hurtle-yourself-off-the-cliffs-and-into-the-chasm practice.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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