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"We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings."
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"Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst."
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Personal Development
"Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely - held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats."
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"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."
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"Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us."
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Personal Development
"What fueled this hatred? Society."
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"A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came along. But the shaman's powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience. His authority comes out of a psychological experience, not a social ordination."
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"Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did."
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"When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after."
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Personal Development
"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."
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"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself."
Life
"In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write."
Faith
"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."
Man
"The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it generation after generation."
Growth
"And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was."
War
"The narrator refers to a character as 'an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them."
Power
"When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there."
Truth
"Wandering is never waste, dear boy, ' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation."
Journey
"For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home."
Identity
"And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted, and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked."
Ego
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