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The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. ↗

— Hermann Broch

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. ↗

— Hermann Broch

#close #comes #death #deceased #humanness

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#first #history #lie #real #real history

I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#bad #because #business #came #decision

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. ↗

— William Seward

#foolishness #opinions #purpose #change

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good. ↗

— Hans Bender

#always #benevolent #between #concentrate #consciousness

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#affairs #after #be happy #challenge #chiefly

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you. ↗

— Prem Rawat

#happiness #lies #own #treasure #within

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me. ↗

— Justin Bieber

#been #business #decisions #good #grown

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. ↗

— Gunther Grass

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