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"There is nothing wrong with a human being. There is something wrong with his ideas."
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"You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help them, who will?"

"Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!"

"When phobia starts to build up in the psyche of thinking humanity against a part of its own kind, there is nothing more primordial and gruesome than that, especially when we are talking about a species that is supposedly the most intelligent one on Earth. Phobias recorded in DSM do not make a person lesser human, but Islamophobia does indeed define whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman."

"There is nothing wrong with a human being. There is something wrong with his ideas."

"I don't want to be rich and famous but I want to die knowing I stood infront of a broken man and gave him one reason to smile again."

"I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants."
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"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."


"The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces."


"Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way."


"However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet."


"How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?"
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