"Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.." -Thomas Hardy-
"Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.".-William Wordsworth-
"If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.".-Albert Einstein-
"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.".-Arnold Schwarzenegger
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"When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.".-Bhagavad Gita-
"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.".-Cyril Connolly-
"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.".-Freya Stark-
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.".-Kahlil Gibran-
"Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.".-Mark Twain-
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"Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.".-Publilius Syrus-
"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.".-Alexander Pope-
"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says ''mine, mine,'' more fiercely.".-Charles Horton Cooley-
"Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason - you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.".-Desiderius Erasmus-
"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.".-Horace-
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"There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?".-Lord George Byron-
"The great events of life often leave one unmoved;they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.".-Adrienne Rich-
"The past does not equal the future.".-Anthony Robbins-
"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.".-Bob Hope-
"Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.".-Camille Paglia-
"By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress;in the cult of individuality, originality and self-exp".-Dan Cruickshank-
"An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood;the brethren are lovers;they extend the ''family.'' I share that sexuality. It was then, is now and will be in the future.".-Derek Jarman-
"The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.".-Franz Grillparzer-
"The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.".-Les Brown-
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"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.".-Louis Pasteur-
"Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.".-Woodrow T. Wilson-
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"I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying;but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.." -Vincent Van Gogh-
"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.".-William Wordsworth-
"We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.".-Albert Einstein-
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.".-Arthur Schopenhauer
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"There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.".-Bill Bradley-
"I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.".-Derek Jarman-
"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.".-Karl Marx-
"Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.".-Naomi Wolf-
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"The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.".-Publilius Syrus-
"The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.".-Alexander Pope-
"Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue;it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.".-Bernard Mandeville-
"The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic;it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.".-Charles Horton Cooley-
"The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.".-Dorothy L. Sayers-
"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.".-Horace-
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"Patience is passion tamed.".-Lyman Abbott-
"The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.".-Oscar Wilde-
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.".-Alan Watts-
"Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.".-Antoine Rivarol-
"As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.".-Boris Pasternak-
"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems;and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.".-Carl Sandburg-
"In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - if totally different in form - from all the romantic architecture of the past.".-Dan Cruickshank-
"Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.".-Diana Ross-
"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.".-Frederick Douglass-
"Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"The things you want are always possible;it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.".-Les Brown-
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"The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.".-Louis Pasteur-
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past.".-Oscar Wilde-
"No facts are to me sacred;none are profane;I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.".-Woodrow T. Wilson-
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"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.." -Vincent Van Gogh-
"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.".-William Wordsworth-
"Even Pain pricks to livelier living.".-Amy Lowell-
"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.".-Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas - to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.".-Bill Clinton-
"I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.".-Diana Princess of Wales-
"If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.".-George Santayana-
"Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.".-Laurence Sterne-
"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.".-Norman Cousins-
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"Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses;out of sickness and pain;out of wooing and worshipping;out of traveling and voting and watching and caring;out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving;calmer, quieter, more humane.".-Ann Oakley-
"No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them".-Bernard Mandeville-
"It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness;it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.".-Christian Nevell Bovee-
"He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.".-Douglas William Jerrold-
"Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.".-Iris Murdoch-
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"The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.".-Mark Twain-
"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.".-Albert Einstein-
"Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.".-Ayn Rand-
"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.".-Boris Pasternak-
"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.".-Charles Horton Cooley-
"Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!".-Dan Quayle-
"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.".-Donald Trump-
"Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.".-Herb Caen-
"Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past;what is recalled by faded flowers save that they did not last?".-Letitia Elizabeth Landon-
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"There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.".-Louis Pasteur-
"One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.".-Oscar Wilde-
"We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned, and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future.".-Yves Saint-Laurent-
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"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.." -Virginia Woolf-
"The world is too much with us;late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.".-William Wordsworth-
"The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.".-Anais Nin-
"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.".-Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.".-Bret Harte-
"Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you and drugs cause cramp, guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful, you might as well live.".-Dorothy Parker-
"Suffering is the ancient law of love;there is not quest without pain;there is no lover who is not also a martyr.".-Heinrich Suso-
"The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.".-Laurence Sterne-
"Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.".-Oscar Wilde-
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"Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive;but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Passion is the genesis of genius.".-Anthony Robbins-
"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.".-Bill Cosby-
"Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.".-Christian Nevell Bovee-
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.".-Fawn M. Brodie-
"We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pil".-Jean Baudrillard-
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"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.".-Mikhail Bakunin-
"Reason over passion.".-Pierre Elliott Trudeau-
"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.".-Albert Einstein-
"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.".-Barbara de Angelis-
"Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.".-Boris Pasternak-
"To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.".-Charles J. Givens-
"The past is at least secure.".-Daniel Webster-
"Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.".-Doug Horton-
"The future influences the present just as much as the past.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.".-Hubert H. Humphrey-
"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near;My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.".-Lord George Byron-
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"There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.".-Louis Pasteur-
"She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.".-Oscar Wilde-
"If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.".-Robert Hewison-
"Variety is the soul of pleasure.".-A. Behn-
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"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.." -Virginia Woolf-
"Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.".-William Wordsworth-
"The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.".-Anais Nin-
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.".-Arthur Schopenhauer
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"God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.".-C. S. Lewis-
"Razors pain you;rivers are damp;acids stain you;and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful;nooses give;gas smells awful;you might as well live.".-Dorothy Parker-
"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.".-Henry Miller-
"Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.".-Leo Buscaglia-
"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.".-Oscar Wilde-
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"There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.".-Anthony Robbins-
"Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.".-Bishop Robert South-
"Sympathy constitutes friendship;but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.".-Coleridge Samuel Taylor-
"Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.".-Konstantin Stanislavisky-
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"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"Strength of mind rests in sobriety;for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.".-Pythagoras-
"When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.".-Alexander Pope-
"The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.".-Benjamin Disraeli-
"No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.".-Boris Pasternak-
"Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.".-Charles J. Givens-
"I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.".-David Jenkins-
"The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.".-Dwight D. Eisenhower-
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.".-George Santayana-
"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.".-Hubert H. Humphrey-
"The best of prophets of the future is the past.".-Lord George Byron-
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"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.".-Louis Pasteur-
"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.".-Virginia Woolf-
"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.".-Albert Einstein-
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"Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac);and these chosen creatures I propose to ." -Vladimir Nabokov-
"I am at two with nature.".-Woody Allen-
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.".-Anatole France-
"What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning".-Barbara de Angelis
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"It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.".-Cardinal J. Newman-
"Laughter is higher than all pain.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.".-Leo Buscaglia-
"We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.".-Oscar Wilde-
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"The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.".-Adrienne Rich-
"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.".-Antisthenes-
"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.".-Blaise Pascal-
"We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.".-Cyril Connolly-
"In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.".-George Santayana-
"Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.".-Laurence Sterne-
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.".-Amy Lowell-
"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.".-Bernard M. Baruch-
"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.".-Boris Pasternak-
"We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.".-Christian Nevell Bovee-
"The past is the teat that feeds those too weak to face the future".-Dean Koontz-
"The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.".-Ernest Dimnet-
"Nothing changes more constantly than the past;for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.".-Gerald W. Johnson-
"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.".-Hunter S. Thompson-
"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.".-Louis Pasteur-
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"With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.".-Louis-Ferdinand Celine-
"The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that".-Virginia Woolf-
"Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progre".-Aldous Huxley-
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"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.." -Voltaire-
"They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?".-Adrienne Rich-
"My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.".-Anthony Robbins-
"You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.".-Ben Stein
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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain.".-Carl Gustav Jung-
"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.".-Francis Picabia-
"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"Endure and persist;this pain will turn to good by and by.".-Ovid-
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"Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger;it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.".-Akhenaton-
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.".-Aristotle-
"The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.".-Carl Gustav Jung-
"Be still when you have nothing to say: when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.".-David Herbert Lawrence-
"In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.".-George Santayana-
"He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
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"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them a".-Roland Barthes-
"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.".-Andre Breton-
"To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.".-Bertrand Russell-
"What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Chri".-Boris Pasternak-
"A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.".-Christopher Lasch-
"The present is just an instant between past and future".-Dean Koontz-
"A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.".-Fawn M. Brodie-
"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.".-Henri L. Bergson-
"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.".-Isabelle Eberhardt-
"Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.".-Louis Pasteur-
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"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why;when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.".-Mark Twain-
"There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.".-Oscar Wilde-
"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.".-Vladimir Nabokov-
"Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.".-Aldous Huxley-
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"Men argue, nature acts.." -Voltaire-
"And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.".-Aeschylus-
"The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.".-Anthony Robbins-
"The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.".-Bertrand Russell
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"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.".-Cesare Pavese-
"For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.".-Francis Thompson-
"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.".-Herb Caen-
"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.".-Lord George Byron-
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains.".-Pierre Auguste Renoir-
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"The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.".-Albert Camus-
"It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.".-Aristotle-
"It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.".-Catullus-
"Be still when you have nothing to say;when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.".-David Herbert Lawrence-
"Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.".-Henry James-
"As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.".-Lord George Byron-
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"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.".-Virgil-
"Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.".-Anthony Robbins-
"A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young;not her face.".-Billie Burke-
"It is not the literal past, the ''facts'' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.".-Brian Friel-
"Study the past if you would divine the future.".-Confucius-
"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.".-Denis Waitley-
"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.".-Fidel Castro-
"We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.".-John Lyly-
"Fortune favors the prepared mind.".-Louis Pasteur-
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"The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.".-Mark Twain-
"Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.".-Philip Roth-
"The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.".-William Wordsworth-
"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.".-Aldous Huxley-
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