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• Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
  -- James Bryant Cona...
• The human body represents to me the same universal innocence
  imelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings....
• The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
  We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far....
• Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pythagoras, iv...
• It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature.
  Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel at home in our skin....
• Two would actually do it--two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world--two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all of the energy we need to survive with each other and with our planet and with all the world's living creatures--don't hurt.
  -- Roger Cara...
• Nothing is new; we walk where others went; There's no vice now but has its precedent. -- Herrick
• The Force is what holds everything together. It has its dark side, and it has its light side.
  It's sort of like cosmic duct tape....
• That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go
  letting them play what they knew, and above it....