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"The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis -- especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he finds his compassion because he remembers he is the exception in being able to see beyond the immediate -- and foreboding -- horizon."
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"To be given to the study of the scriptures is to discover more principles."
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"If you listen to many wise sayings, you will develop a strong-mind."
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"The story becomes clearer with time."
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"If you stop learning, you forget what you ready know."
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"If you wish gain understanding, turn away from evil."
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"It is fatal to forget the past."
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"A seeker of knowledge is the search for wise words."
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"Life is unpredictable. We can not tell will happen in a minute. We have no control of tomorrow and it's details. Live a careful life."
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"The best way to easily identify a counterfeit currency is to have a full exposure to the original currency. If you don't know your true vision, any satanic vision can cross your way and you might not know it."
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"Be careful who's advice you heed to! It is better to listen to your heart."
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"Get busy living or get busy dying."
Life


"The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain."
Justice


"It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around."
Art


"Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't."
Grief


"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
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"I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on."
Healing


"He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again."
Religion


"The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons."
Pain


"Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position."
Perseverance


"If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone."
Destiny
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