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"Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth."
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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."

"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

"The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere."

"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
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"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."

"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."

"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."

"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."

"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."
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