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«There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your live those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.»
Author: Nikki Giovanni
(Poet)
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Among the Living, clothe, depression, disrespect, disrespected, engage, feed, naked, remove, sick, The Visionary, The World I, visionaries, visionary
«Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Among the, Among the Living, assume, comfort, difficulty, otherwise, quiet, Quiet Life, remains, sadness, seeks, untroubled
«There are some among us who live in rooms of experience we can never enter»
«As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.»
«And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: / When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.»
«This life as you live it now and have lived it, you will have to live again and again, times without number, and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and all the unspeakably small and great in your life must return to you and everything in the same series and sequence -- and in the same way this spider and this moonlight among the trees, and this same way this moment and I myself. The eternal hour glass of existence will be turned again and again -- and you with it, you dust of dust!»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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again and again, Among the, Among the Living, dust, glass, life eternal, moonlight, Return to, sequence, series, sigh, small number, spider, The Eternal, The Sequence, This Life, turned, unspeakably
«The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Among the Living, apt, conclusion, discontent, dishonest, insane, intolerable, invariably, personally, prevailing, regard, regard to, romantic, romantics, spread, superstitions, taboo, taboos, The Conclusion, the government, The Romantic, tries
«Reverence is the chief joy and power of life - reverence for that which is pure and bright in youth; for what is true and tried in age; for all that is gracious among the living, great among the dead, - and marvelous in the powers that cannot die»
«Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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adapt, Among the Living, casting lots, Fellow Creature, ordain, ordained, ordains, sincerely
«The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living.»
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