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Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the centre of it all.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":95,"quote_text":96,"author_id":5,"source_id":27,"has_image":54,"author":97,"source":98,"quote_tag":99,"commentary":9},4027300,"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":101,"quote_text":102,"author_id":5,"source_id":31,"has_image":54,"author":103,"source":104,"quote_tag":105,"commentary":106},3908527,"Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? 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