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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Weather creates character.
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Character Create Weather
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Belief Believe Music
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Abiding Medicine Soul
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Lesson Matter Rome
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Carrying Ideas People
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Creativity Ideas Success
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Children Goodness Responsibility
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Cities Garden Travel
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
What you desire you call into being.
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Call Creativity Desire
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed