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“There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.”

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Laura Dern is an accomplished American actress, born on February 10, 1967. She is renowned for her exceptional performances in film and television, particularly for her roles in 'Blue Jasmine' and 'Big Little Lies'. more

“What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural' moments and circumstances . . . the Oriental focus is upon mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane-the most natural-situations of life.”

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Author:Conrad Hyers

“Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.”

Ifs Men Life Born Loses Lucky Uprightness

Author:Confucius

“To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.”

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Author:Clifford Geertz

“There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely, muscles and vessel that are stressed grow and increase in capacity. This same basic law also applies to spiritual and intellectual growth and can be achieved only by continual nourishment and effort in day-to-day living.”

“None meet life honestly and few heroically.”

Life Honestly

Author:Clarence Darrow

“Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.”

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Author:Clare Boothe Luce

“Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.”

“Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.”

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Author:Zhuangzi

“Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, 'Great is the Creator! What will he make of you now? Will he make you into a rat's liver? Will he make you into an insect's leg?' Tzu-Lai replied, 'The universe gave me my body so I may be carried, my life so I may work, my old age so I may repose, and my death so I may rest. To regard life as good is the way to regard death as good. . . . If I regard the universe as a great furnace and creation as a master foundryman, why should anywhere I go not be all right?'”

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Author:Zhuangzi

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