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"I can see by your face that I'll never persuade you. And that's surprising, because usually you at least try to see my side."I can see your side," said Cecily. "I've got a much clearer view of it than you do, from over here on my side."
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"You are looking at the world from your window, that's good, but there is something missing here, something very big: You must also look at your window from the world to see yourself!"
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Personal Development
"The past is far behind. If you still want to look at it, you will painfully stretch your neck muscles. Don't live in the past, leave the past, but learn from it."
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Personal Development
"This earth in which we are living is not our everlasting home."
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Personal Development
"Don't predict the condition of the entire day by the state of the morning. You don't judge a book by its cover. A cloudy morning is no guarantee for a rainy day!"
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Personal Development
"Prayer has to be fervent, intensive, passionate and from the heart."
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Personal Development
"If we start to complain, destruction is right at our door."
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"Every eye makes its own perception."
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"It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative."
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"There is a different world on the other side of your present attitude."
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"Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!"
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"Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf."
Justice
"In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on."
Philosophy
"Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brought with them.Human: You don't believe in God?Hive Queen: The question never came up. We have always remembered how we began.Human: You evolved. We were created.Hive Queen: By a virus.Human: By a virus that God created in order to create us.Hive Queen: So you, too, are a believer.Human: I understand belief.Hive Queen: No-you desire belief.Human: I desire it enough to act as if I believed. Maybe that's what faith is.Hive Queen: Or deliberate insanity."
Philosophy
"I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy.Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin."
Religion
"[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back."
Justice
"By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science...."
Science
"Never believe a rumor of my death,' said Peter. 'I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, as many claws, and the same cheery, cooperative disposition."
Life
"And I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all, the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions."
Ethics
"I can see by your face that I'll never persuade you. And that's surprising, because usually you at least try to see my side."I can see your side," said Cecily. "I've got a much clearer view of it than you do, from over here on my side."
Perspective
"Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy."
Life
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