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Jan 12, 2024 03:17AM

“Over and over in the butterfly we see the idea of transcendence. In the forest we see not the inert but the aspiring. In water that departs forever and forever returns, we experience eternity.”
― Mary Oliver, Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

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“Hospitality has always been a potent political weapon. Moses used it like a master. Coupled with his overpowering personality, a buffet often did as much for a proposal as a bribe.”
― Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

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“It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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“Whatever depends on conditions
Is empty of inherent existence,
What excellent instruction could there be,
More amazing than these words?”
― Tsongkhapa, Harmony of Emptiness and Dependent-Arising

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