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My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.

— Sophia Loren Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979)

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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984)

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

The Subtlety of Emotions (2001)

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982)

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Words of Wisdom and Quotables Quotes (2007)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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