Robert Breault Quotes - Page 22

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• Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu.

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  Time, Eight, Cities

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• We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad dash to have everything else.

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  Mad, Realizing

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• There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.

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  Retirement, Mean, Sleep

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• If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

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  Attitude, Failure, Eye

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• The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy.

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  People, Body, Privacy

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• I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

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  Garden, Gazing, Purpose

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• I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

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  Spring, Fall, Procrastination

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• Today's Multiple Choice Thought
  There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in:
  a. the bedroom
  b. the nursery
  c. the garden

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  Love, Garden, Hands

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• Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

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  Nature, Believe, Animal

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• Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly to your control? Is your motive esthetic? If so, you are an artist. If not, you are probably a writer.

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  Artist, Tools, Looks

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• We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

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  Needs, Arms, Lord

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• It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.

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  Trust, Persons, Prompts

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• As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

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  Believe, Garden, Evidence Of God

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• A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

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  Family, Mom, Mother

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• Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

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  Love, Desert, Mirages

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• We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

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  Goal, Effort, Gains

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• Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.

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  Baby, Food, Aunt

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• What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

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  Philosophical, House, Democracy

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• My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

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  Life, Book, Understanding

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• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

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  Ambition, Artist, Men

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• Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

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  Finishing, Painting, Obvious

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• Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

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  Truth, Mistake, Liars

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• There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.

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  Lists, Excuse, Reason

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• If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

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  Constitution, Language, Written

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• It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.

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  Running, Animal, Perception

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