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    After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

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Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes.

by Henri De Lubac Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

by Aleister Crowley Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

by William Drummond Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

by E. R. Beadle Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice read more

Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice for the entombment of bones!Best to "Realize" the temporal nature of thingsand simply "Do and Die!

by Irvin Kauffman Found in: Mortality Quotes,
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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo read more

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

by Ernest Dimnet Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and read more

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

by Denis Diderot Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin.

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin.

by Anais Nin Found in: Perception Quotes,
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust
That measures all our time; which also shall
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust
That measures all our time; which also shall
Be crumbled into dust.

by George Herbert Found in: Mortality Quotes,
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