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"In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool."
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"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."

"That's a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it's not really true. It's like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart."

"If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image."

"When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep."

"A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking."

"He who knows to be afraid has a higher chance of living!"

"Humans get used to even if they are in the hell."
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"The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power."

"Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown."

"I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out."

"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."

"Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are."

"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."
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