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"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame."
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"In every bad situation we have to see Satan's motives behind a person's actions."
"For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU."
"When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena 'signs', the sceptics 'coincidence', and psychologists 'concentrated focus', although I've yet to find out what term historians would use)."
"Whenever I ask a question, and the pain comes, I know I have asked a really good question."
"Lend an ear to your inner voice and intuition."
"The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations."
"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."
"I will meet you in that gap where consciousness meets unconsciousness."
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"I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents."
"Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers."
"Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive."
"Our group takes what I'll call a Post-Atheist stance. Our position is that god is a creation of human beings, who only exists because of the clap-hands-if-you-believe-in-fairies principle. If enough people were sensible enough not to clap hands, then this Tinker Bell god would die. However, unfortunately, billions of human beings are still prepared to defend their belief in some sort of god-fairy, and, as a result, god exists. What's worse is that he is now running amok."
"Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace."
"The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives."
"Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standard-sized pickle-jar; six hundred million spermatozoa could be lifted on a single spoon. Every pickle-jar (you will forgive me if I become florid for a moment) contains, therefore, the most exalted of possibilities: the feasibility of the chutnification of history; the grand hope of the pickling of time!"
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