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"I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector of the city. He said the poor didn't need policing; they needed help, and we could give it to them. But I would rather not mention that now, or here. It's one of the many things Erudite gives as evidence of Abnegation's incompetence."
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"Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good."
"It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself."
"Serving others is one of the bases for you to have or to enjoy a fullness of purpose in life."
"It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's."
"The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed."
"Despite the fact that we cannot be absolutely altruistic in our behavior, we can still build our character to be loving and compassionate " to empathize with others."
"A child who goes to school and shares his or her lunch with the classmates, is a billion times greater and more religious than all the book-learned priests, imams, rabbis and pundits in the world combined."
"Those who love their lives too much eventually lose it. While those who are ready to sacrifice their lives for others gain it."
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"She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless."
"Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it."
"We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?"
"He is stronger than anyone I know, & warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, & will keep, for the rest of my life."
"Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way."
"So you're her brother? says Lynn. "I guess we know who got the good genes.I laugh at the expression on Caleb's face, his mouth drawn into a slight pucker and his eyes wide."
"He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done-almost killinng me was one of those thingss-and another list of all the good, heroic, brave things he had not done, and then decided that he was tired. Tired, not just of living, but of existing. Tired of being Al."
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