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There is a theory that states: 'If anyone finds out what the universe is for it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.' There is another theory that states: 'This has already happened. . . .'

Douglas Noel Adams : English humorist & science fiction writer
Douglas Noel Adams (1952 - 2001)
 
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There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, that provides the difficulties.

Douglas Adams : Gaia Child
Douglas Adams
Source: Life, the Universe and Everything
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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contains multitudes).

Walt Whitman : American poet & journalist
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Source: Song of Myself, 1939.
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If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi : Japanese Buddhist scholar & Zen master, founder of the San Francisco Zen Center
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi (1905 - 1971)
 
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For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.

Lao Tzu : Chinese philosopher & mystic, founder of Taoism
Lao Tzu (c.604 - 531 B.C.)
Source: The Tao Te Ching, (42)
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Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

Epictetus : Roman Stoic philosopher, former slave & tutor of Marcus Aurelius
Epictetus (c. 50 - 120)
Source: Enchiridion
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