Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you … - James Hilton

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You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

James Hilton

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

Choices, Crowd, Ideas, Important, Somebody, Till

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Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

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I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation.

Dog, Long, Night, Organized, Pools, Swimming

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

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If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.

Children, Fraction, Live, Teacher, War

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

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What I deeply want. . . is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.

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I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

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You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

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The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

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You tried to slide his original curse back onto him?” Al said in wonder. “At the restaurant? And I stopped you? Sweet mother pus bucket!” he exclaimed, and I swear, dust sifted from the ceiling. “Rachel, we have to work on this communication thing.

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