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When I finally got to go ride the mountains in Japan, it blew my mind.

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George Eliot

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

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All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.

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At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

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When I finally got to go ride the mountains in Japan, it blew my mind.

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B.K.S. Iyengar

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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.

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