Perhaps the most significant thing George Lucas did in creating 'Star Wars' was to fictionalize the Tao - to spark a universe where we can talk about the Force in objective terms and show it in direct action.


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Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated! Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst! ...
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On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Six years--six little years--six drops of time.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden an...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath; Tonight it doth inherit Th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world."
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prev...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. - Matthew Prior,
MATTHEW PRIOR
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!) Be humble and ...
MATTHEW PRIOR
They talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR
We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: "Eternity, be thou ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his ...
MATTHEW HENRY
Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an...
MATTHEW DESMOND
I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ...
MATTHEW DESMOND
The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam...
MATTHEW DESMOND
We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable h...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
MATTHEW HENRY
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the tri...
MATTHEW HENRY
In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog yo...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify t...
MATTHEW STEWART
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange...
MATTHEW PRIOR
I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address ho...
MATTHEW DESMOND
When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the...
MATTHEW LEWIS
I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.
MATTHEW YGLESIAS
He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you t...
MATTHEW SWEET
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation,...
MATTHEW SCULLY