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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."

"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

"The first stage of any development is infancy."

"A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't."
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"The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be."

"We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane."

"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."

"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."

"The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead."

"In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches."
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