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“Keep working on love.”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.”
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“He entered the city asked a blind man if he had ever heard the name Enkidu, and the old man shrugged and shook his head, then turned away, as if to say, ‘It is impossible to keep the names of friends whom we have lost”
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“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts .... He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular, in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man's nature or his institutions must be entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood, as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near to earth as a politician.”
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“Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together.”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
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