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• fish
• question
• thing

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not? Amy Tan

• humanity
• passion
• useless

Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion history art and romance would be useless. Honore de Balzac

• single
• light
• him

A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one Virginia Woolf

• death
• men
• beautiful

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it. Ernest Hemingway

• loneliness
• feeling
• wife

...you have neither wife nor child (without any sexual feeling, she longed to cherish that loneliness)... Virginia Woolf

• god
• him
• feeling

I made this resolution today. I will try to excel in all things yet if I am excelled, without fault of mine, I will not be mortified. I will not withhold from any one the praise which I think his due; nor will I allow myself to envy another's praise or to feel jealousy when I hear him praised. May God help me to keep it. Salmon P. Chase

• passion
• light
• fear

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear. Thomas Merton

• god
• help
• fighting

God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle! William Shakespeare

• great
• greatness
• luxury

I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without. Peter Cook

• some
• prisons
• window

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without. Khalil Gibran

• mind
• acceptance
• mindfulness

The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986) Wendell Berry

• she
• evening
• look

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking. Leo Tolstoy

• ambition
• study
• love

I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me— A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor. In truth it pictures not my destination But my life. For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment; Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid; Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances. Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life. And now I know that we must lift the sail And catch the winds of destiny Wherever they drive the boat. To put meaning in... Edgar Lee Masters

• humanity
• intelligent
• judgemental

The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgement. Jiddu Krishnamurti

• today
• world
• government

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today? my own government. Martin Luther King jr.