Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults. - Alan Watts

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Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.

Alan Watts

Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

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If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

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To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

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Saint Augustine

Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side. . . whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.

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Charlotte Bronte

To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)

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