life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it;. . . it is up to us to create … - Alan Alda

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TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

Alan Alda

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it;. . . it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

Create, Existence, Life, Life Is, Meaningless

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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.

Helpful, Pleasure, Things, Two

I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.

Gravitate, Half, People, Play, Tennis

Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before.

Beginning, Done, Good, Mystified

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

Actors, Artist, Personal, True, Use

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Communicating, Interest, Rest, Scientist, Wonderful

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With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

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Remember this: with mind you will always be a loser. Even if you are victorious, your victories will be just defeats. With mind there is no victory, with no-mind there is no defeat. You have to shift your whole consciousness from mind to no-mind. Once no-mind is there, everything is victorious. Once the no-mind is there, nothing goes wrong, nothing can go wrong.

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Samuel Richardson

The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.

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TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

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Chuck Klosterman

I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation. ” —Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A. M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life.

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