"An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you."

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“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”

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“The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.”

“The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.”

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— Barack Obama

Politics1961

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— Baruch Spinoza

Philosophy1632–1677

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— Prem Rawat

Psychology1957

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"I wanted to kill myself. I would have done it, too, if I had owned a gun. I was considering the gruesome alternatives — pills, slitting my wrists with a razor blade, jumping off a bridge — when anothe…"

— Arthur C. Clarke

Literature1917–2008

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