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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. ↗

— Democritus

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We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

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I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

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I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

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Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives. ↗

— Ally Condie

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I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

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It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

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Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday. ↗

— Ajay Devgan

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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual. ↗

— Indra Devi

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