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"Some people like to spend their time watching and studying how other people spend their own time."

"Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs."

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the ru)e."

"Best of stories are created at Airports, Dinner Tables and Showers!"

"The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."

"An average woman is in this superior to an average man-that she never instigates, only responds."

"In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers -- dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for a way to get even with a world in which they are only a problem.The Hell's Angels are not visionaries, but diehards, and if they are the forerunners or the vanguard of anything it is not the "moral revolution" in vogue on college campuses, but a fast-growing legion of young unemployables whose untapped energy will inevitably find the same kind of destructive outlet that "outlaws" like the Hell's Angels have been finding for years."

"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."
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"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

"All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now."

"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"

"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."

"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings."

"Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman."

"This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night."

"Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung"
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