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The Stand

«What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what kind of a person you are»
«The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings»
«How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.»
«Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.»
«The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.»
«Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.»
«As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world»
«Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.»
«When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.»
«When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.»

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