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My good friends tell me I'm genuine, kind, intelligent, wise, and funny. But I wouldn't take their word for it, they're mainly idiots (an example of me trying to be funny).

"I contain multitudes"
- Walt Whitman

Unseen – Robert M. Pirsig

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Post date August 22, 2013
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“We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives.”

– Robert M. Pirsig

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Remembrance – Shakespeare

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Post date August 21, 2013
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“Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that is gone.”

– Shakespeare

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God of Money – Henry Fielding

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Post date August 21, 2013
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“If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.”

– Henry Fielding

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Cruelty & compassion – Hasdai Ibn Shaprut

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Post date August 21, 2013
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“If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?”

– Hasdai Ibn Shaprut

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Mind or heart – Sigmund Freud

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Post date August 21, 2013
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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

– Sigmund Schlomo Freud

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Promise of happiness – Stendhal

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Post date August 21, 2013
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

– Stendhal

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Quotes

Habitual thoughts – Marcus Aurelius

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Post date August 21, 2013
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then with a continuous series of such thoughts as these: for instance, that where a man can live, there he can also live well.

– Marcus Aurelius