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"The world existed for a very long time before this particular set of seven billion billion atoms came along and it will go right on after they're scattered up, down and sideways."
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"The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world."

"The world will see true peace when there are no boundaries of religion and the religion of all will be pure unconditional love."

"We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become."

"The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority."

"There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby."

"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."

"Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man."

"I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard-I must keep armed."

"Simplicity is, as simple as you make it."
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"He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed."


"We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor's edge."


"This is what the Others have done to us. You can't band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope. How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity."


"In the 4th Wave, you can't trust that people are still people. But you can trust that your gun is still your gun."


"Crazy people. They never think they're crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them."


"I want him to touch me again. I want to feel his hands, as soft as clouds. But I'm afraid if he touches me, all seven billion billion billion atoms that make up my body will blow apart and scatter across the universe."
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