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"What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are."
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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."

"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."

"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."

"It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner."

"I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that."

"Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world."

"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."

"I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense."
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"We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love."

"Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather."

"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself."

"All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side."

"In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil."
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