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• When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Thinking, Comfort

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.231, Dial Press

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• If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.

  Sam Harris

  Views, Political, Brain

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape”, p.191, Random House

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• ‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.

  David Attenborough

  Successful, Survival, Mammals

  "The Life of Mammals". Documentary, 2002.

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• It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment,— for they would have been hoarse and faint if they had gone on much longer.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Hands, Tea, Refreshments

  "Little Women; Little Men; Jo's Boys".

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• The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Wine, Roots

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• Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

  John Lennon

  Dream, Jesus, Parking Meters

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Truth, Real

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.

  George Orwell

  Art, Lying, Book

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sorrow, Philosopher, Pleasure

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.570, Simon and Schuster

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• When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their land and valuables, and respecting almost nothing about the native cultures. They lost the wisdom of the indigenous peoples-wisdom about the land and connectedness to the great web of life...We have another chance with all these refugees. People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America.

  Mary Pipher

  Native American, Land, Web Of Life

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• Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion harness transformation. Food and air aren’t just shuffled about but, rather, undergo the exact chemical bonding needed to keep you alive. The sugar extracted from an orange travels to the brain and fuels a thought. The emergent property in this case is the newness of the thought; no molecules in the history of the universe ever combined to produce that exact thought.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Air, Breathing

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• In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Execution, Hours

  Thomas Hardy (2008). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles”, p.48, OUP Oxford

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• You cannot fail, you can only produce results.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Failing, Results

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• While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

  Robert Burns

  Kings, Children, Humorous

  Robert Burns, Robert Chambers (1838). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]”, p.85

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• If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Struggle, Water, Laughing

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• The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Vision, Littles, Merit

  Leonardo (da Vinci), Edward McCurdy (1939). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

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• Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, tartrazine food colouring, dairy produce and air pollution. A few hundred years earlier it would have been demons, still the best analogy I think, but not much help when it comes to a cure.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, Air, Years

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.291, Soho Press

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• Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

  Isaac Newton

  Ideas, Diversity, Atheism

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

  Susan Sontag

  Intelligent, People, Care

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.76, Macmillan

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• One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

  J. D. Salinger

  Long, One Day, Care

  "Other People's Secrets" by Joyce Maynard, www.sfgate.com. September 13, 1998.

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• The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Men, Law, Spirit

  Gilles Deleuze (2006). “Nietzsche and Philosophy”, p.128, A&C Black

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• The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label 'Buddhism' which we give to the teachings of the Buddha is of little importance. The name one gives is inessential.... In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men's minds.

  Walpola Rahula

  Christian, Buddhist, Philosophy

  Walpola Rahula (2014). “What the Buddha Taught”, p.17, Oneworld Publications

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• ...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

  Richard Rohr

  People, Worst

  Richard Rohr (2016). “Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps”, p.13, SPCK

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• I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education. If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer through the changes. If they think money will solve the problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride. Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Two, Long

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