Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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The Four Corners was "the place where the tangible and the mythical became the same."
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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.
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You cannot see wilderness from a road. What you see from a road is something different- a scene, a panorama, a picture; but you do not feel anything.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
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The "Terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.
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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
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Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
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How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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