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"What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?"
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"Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness."
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"If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car."
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"We cannot compare our position to the people in this world."
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"Build your life not on the things of today, but on the things of tomorrow."
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"Focus your energy on the fragrance and beauty of the petals not on the thorns."
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"How you see the world may not be how others view it."
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"To have wealth does not mean you love money, you can love money and not even have a cent."
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"Three weeks ago, he'd seen hail fall from the sky, onlyto be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it's important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion."
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"We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we've lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it."
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"What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at the varied world the common thread, the unifying theme through immense diversity, a fearlessness of growth, of search, of looking, that enlarges the private and the public world. And yet, in our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
Evil

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."
Man

"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
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"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible."
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"Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil."
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"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true."
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"It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay."
Philosophy

"We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves."
Philosophy
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