We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
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- Beyond the stars you see are other stars, stars beyond stars,’ she told him, ‘and all are dreams, like shoals of fish in the oceans of the night. – Keith Miller
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- To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony. – Hermann Hesse
- The brain is the hardware, and the mind is the software, with the totality always in action, hardware plus software. – Pearl Zhu
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- the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality. – Tony Judt
- Perhaps I should stop seeing myself as an individual and start identifying myself with the totality, but I just can’t do that. – Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold
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- Never let me lose you, Ink. Never let me screw this up. And never think for one moment that I don’t love you, need you or want you with me. – Dawn Metcalf
- I felt a wish never to leave that room – a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change. – Leo Tolstoy
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- An eagle can mock a lion only because of its wings. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- as they mock you due to your loss,you rise back strong and agile to win – Samuel Gyekye Mensah
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