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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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"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."
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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."
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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."
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"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."
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"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."
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"Time is a precious gift."
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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
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"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."
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"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."
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"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."
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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
Society

"True sorrow is as rare as true love."
Love

"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."
Truth

"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."
Time

"I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world."
Faith

"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
Experience

"It had been in their hands then; he was quite sure of it. But kids lose everything, kids have slippery fingers and holes in their pockets and they lose everything."
Loss

"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."
Nature

"A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures."
Literature

"The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size."
Mystery
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