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"The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself."
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"Vivi muito tempo no mundo das pessoas grandes. Vi-as de bem perto. Não fiquei com muito melhor opinião delas."
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"A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation."
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"The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor."
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"The tedious never die, that's what makes them tedious."
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"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea."
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"The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting."
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"Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all."
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"When you see a married couple coming down the street the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one who's mad."
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"How do you feel?He rubbed his stomach. "Like I've been eating Styrofoam."
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"I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights."
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"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."
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"I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species."
Emotion
"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
Time
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
People
"There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle."
Equality
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
Fact
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
Nation
"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
Happiness
"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
Science
"Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children."
Family
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