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"Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches."
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"I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around."
"Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey."
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"It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement."
"No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles."
"Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws."
"When young people are cynical, and snarky, they shoot down their own future. When you keep saying "No," all that's left is what other people said "Yes" to before you were born. Really, "No" is no choice at all."
"Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive."
"I've given up men. It's true. At first, I was just going to give up attorneys, but that seemed immature - and far too exclusive, so I'm playing it safe and giving up all the penis-carrying humans."
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"There will be sadness," Alia intoned. "I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered. Some within the sound of my voice will attain exalted destinies. You will sneer at the past, forgetting what I tell you now: within all differences there is unity."
"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."
"Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions."
"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."
"There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?"
"There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering."
"It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will."
"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
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