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"There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?"
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"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."
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"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."
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"You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy."
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"The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask."
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"Are you afraid now?" said Gregor."At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Regalia. You see, I was tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Everyday when I wake I tell myself it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it."Gregor thought this was the single saddest thing anyone had ever said to him. He couldn't answer."And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?"
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"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
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"Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away, but one day we finally understand that you turn away not from our faces but from your own fears. From those things inside you that you think mark you as someone unlovable to your family, and society, and even to God."
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"When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld."
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"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind."
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"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."
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"Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent."
Thought
"Marriage is socialism among two people."
Marriage
"That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose."
Freedom
"At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame."
Family
"Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it."
Woman
"No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots."
Patriotism
"In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites."
Fact
"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."
History
"America is addicted to wars of distraction."
Distraction
"Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia."
Exercise
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