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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

Heraclitus

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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Boredom Control Inspirational
The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Awake Deep Private Share Sleep World
The sun is the width of a human foot.
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Feet Human One Liner Sun
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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Deliberate Fire Violence
War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.
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Freedom God King Slave War
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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False Justice Lie Witness
Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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Children King Lifetime Piece Play
The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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Cosmoc Eternal Fire God
If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
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Access Attain Hope Win
The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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Atheist Cosmic Creation God Man Process Universe
Nothing endures but change.
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Change Endurance Life One Liner
Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.
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Air Death Earth Fire Live Philosophy Water
To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
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God Men Philosophy Right Wrong
History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.
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Build Children History Majesty Man Power Sea World
Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
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Justice Realize War
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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Inspirational Late One Liner Seek World

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

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