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Everything that lives,
Lives not alone, nor for itself.

William Blake

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Blake, William. The Book of Thel. London, c. 1789.

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Blake, William. "The Book of Thel." Blake: Poems, edited by Peter Washington. Everyman's Library, 1994.

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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa. A Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations. Harper & Row, 1975.

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The earth is what we all have in common.

Wendell Berry

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Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture. Sierra Club Books, 1977, ch. 7.

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To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour

William Blake

Auguries of Innocence

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Blake, William. "Auguries of Innocence." Songs of Innocence and Experience, with Other Poems. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1866.

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Blake, William. "Auguries of Innocence." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?

Edward N. Lorenz

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Lorenz, Edward N. "Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 29 Dec. 1979, Washington, DC, USA.

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If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar, has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are that each of us inhales one molecule of it with every breath we take.

James Jeans

An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases

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Jeans, James. An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases. Cambridge University Press, 1940, ch. 2.

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Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

Norman Maclean

A River Runs Through It

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Maclean, Norman. "A River Runs Through it." A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. University of Chicago Press, 1976.

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Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836, ch. 1.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Nature." Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures. Library of America, 1983, ch. 1.

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It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away.

John Williams (novelist)

Butcher's Crossing

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Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. Macmillan, 1960, pt. 2, ch. 5.

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The Force is what gives the Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Directed by George Lucas, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1977.

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A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 3.

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All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; for, after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunégonde, if you hadn’t been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn’t traveled across America on foot, if you hadn’t given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn’t lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn’t be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios.

Voltaire

Candide

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Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 30.

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Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 30.

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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Dogen

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Dogen. "Genjo Koan [Actualizing the Fundamental Point]." Shobogenzo, c. 1253.

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The whole universe depends on everything fitting together, just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece...the entire universe will get busted.

Beasts of the Southern Wild

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Beasts of the Southern Wild. Directed by Benh Zeitlin, Cinereach/Journeyman Pictures/Court 13 Pictures, 2012.

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." London: J. Wilford, 1733, ep. 1, I. 267.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 1, l. 267.

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The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the Ocean,
The winds of Heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Love's Philosophy." The Indicator. London: J. Appleyard, 22 Dec. 1819, I. 1.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Love's Philosophy." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music.

Joshua Reynolds

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Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse VII." 10 Dec. 1776, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.