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I think that slavery is wrong, morally,

socially and politically.

I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States,

and I should not object if it should gradually

terminate in the whole Union.

I don't believe you have to be

better than everybody else.

I believe you have to be better

than you ever thought you could be

Ken Venturi

You can get help from teachers,

but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself,

sitting alone in a room.

Learning how to be still,

to really be still and let life happen

that stillness becomes a radiance.

To be yourself in a world

that is constantly trying to make you something else

is the greatest accomplishment.

You’re only given a little spark of madness.

You mustn’t lose it.

I guess you'd call me an independent,

since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics.

I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as

I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves,

no matter what the party label.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

We aim above the mark

to hit the mark

Be like water making its way through cracks.

Do not be assertive,

but adjust to the object,

and you shall find a way around or through it.

Standardization is the enemy of innovation.

Business is a money game with

few rules and a lot of risk.

Life is brief, and then you die,

you know?

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The universe is not made to suit man;

we must understand its laws.

If I were not a physicist,

I would probably be a musician.

I often think in music.

I live my daydreams in music.

I see my life in terms of music.

Only through focus

can you do world class things.

If I were to try to read,

much less answer,

all the attacks made on me,

this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell,

it is simply purgatory.

If we could first know where we are,

and whither we are tending,

we could then better judge what to do,

and how to do it.