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Lao Tzu quote: "Who can (make) the muddy water (clear)?"
Who can (make) the muddy water (clear)? Lao Tzu
When men see Han-shanThey all say he's crazyAnd not much to look at -Dressed in rags and hides.They don't get what I sayAnd I don't talk their language.All I can say to those I meet:"Try and make it to Cold Mountain. Gary Snyder
Albert Einstein quote: "The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it..."
The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple. Albert Einstein
love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. if you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. but in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. it will not be broken; it will become impenetrable, irredeemable...to love is to be vulnerable C. S. Lewis
It's for upset stomachs," Dylan siad, trying to hide a smile. "It's to reduce gas in your digestive system, not to create gas to make explosions."Gazzy's face fell as Iggy said,"Really? Gazzy, take it! Take the whole thing!"I second that emotion!" said Total. James Patterson
Richard Bach quote: "You are never given a wish without also being given the power..."
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however. Richard Bach
I didn't literally kill Indians. We were supposed to make you give up being Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything. We weren't trying to kill Indian people. We were trying to kill Indian culture. Sherman Alexie
It's the wrong choice, Gennie."Serena," Justin said warningly, but she turned on him with her eyes flashing and her voice low with exasperation."Damn it, Justin, she's miserable! There's nothing like a stubborn, pig-headed man to make a woman miserable, is there, Gennie?"With a half laugh, she dragged a hand through her hair. "No, I don't guess there is."That works both ways," Justin reminded her."And if the man's pig-headed enough," Serena went on precisely, "it's up to the woman to give him... Nora Roberts
The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it. Don DeLillo
We are now ready to tackle Dickens. We are now ready to embrace Dickens. We are now ready to bask in Dickens. In our dealings with Jane Austen we had to make a certain effort in order to join the ladies in the drawing room. In the case of Dickens we remain at table with our tawny port. Vladimir Nabokov
The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia. Milan Kundera
Michael Cunningham quote: "He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous..."
He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous ballads under the window of a giantess. Michael Cunningham
Sri Chinmoy quote: "Now is the time to make good use of time. Today is the day to..."
Now is the time to make good use of time. Today is the day to begin a perfect day. Sri Chinmoy
Why, from the very windows, even in the dusk, you see a swelling run through the street, an aspiration, as with arms outstretched, eyes desiring, mouths agape. And then we peaceably subside. For if the exaltation lasted we should be blown like foam into the air. The stars would shine through us. We should go down the gale in salt drops- as sometimes happens. For the impetuous spirits will have none of this cradling. Never any swaying or aimlessly lolling for them. Never any making believe, or... Virginia Woolf
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French. I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. Mark Twain

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