We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who will live after us. In our long lives we endeavored to unfold the collective consciousness. In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of life.
One of his private vanities was that all the garbage sorting had endowed his hands with killing strength__hat he could chop a brick in half like Bruce Lee. __o let__ get a brick,_ replied a girl with whom he had once, injudiciously, shared this conviction. Abdul had bumbled away. The brick belief was something he wanted to harbor, not to test.
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One of his private vanities was that all the garbage sorting had endowed his hands with killing strength__hat he could chop a brick in half like Bruce Lee. __o let__ get a brick,_ replied a girl with whom he had once, injudiciously, shared this conviction. Abdul had bumbled away. The brick belief was something he wanted to harbor, not to test.
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