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My body is a metronome, keeping time for the universe.
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My body is a metronome, keeping time for the universe.
Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you, the first time around.
No word more frequently in the mouths of men than conscience; and the meaning of it is, in some measure, understood: however, it is a word extremely abused by many who apply other meanings to it which God Almighty never intended.
I am invariably late for appointments sometimes, as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed, but never the husband).
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
I'm going to fight for the right, for his right, your right and my right to stand up for what we believe in. I'm going to risk the wrath of people that are so poisonous that if you will disagree with them they would have you thrown in jail. And that is the hole in the dike that I spoke about. It is the crumbling of the ramparts we watch.