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"Wisdom is the greatest speaker in history; nature, second. Folly is the worst speaker in history; fools, second."

"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"

"True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible."

"A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs."

"Self consciousness is the ultimate wisdom of life."
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"It doesn't pay to trust a lettered man in the road, Brothers, their heads are full of other man's ideas."

"I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl."

"Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw."

"The way I'd put it, said Makin, 'is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace."

"Never having been troubled by a conscience before, I was far from sure what to expect of one, and so when for a minute or two each day at dawn a voice began to whisper to me to be a better man, I decided the shock of recent events had finally woken mine. My conscience had a name- Baraqel. I didn't like him much."

"The road forgets. Make your life a journey, keep moving toward what you want, leave behind anything that's too heavy to carry."

"Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing."

"We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I'm well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on."
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