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"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."
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"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes."
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"When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray."
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"The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior."
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"Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them."
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"Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation."
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"Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits."
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"Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless."
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"One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical."
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"As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior."
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"I should have forgiven him."Maybe. Maybe there's more we all could have done, he says, "but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.I frown and pull back. That is a lesson that members of Abnegation learn " guilt as a tool, rather than a weapon against the self."
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"Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time."
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"Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of."
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"Honor, I said with a snort. "Honor has no place in survival."
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"If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it."
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"Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"I raise my eyebrows.She raises hers, too, mimicking me."The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around."
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"The person you became with her is worth being."
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"It isn't right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first."
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"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
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"Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way, they want you to think a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you wont pose a threat to them."
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