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"Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger."
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"Where there is murder, anything can happen."

"Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria."

"The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later."

"Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger."

"As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world."
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"It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness."


"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."


"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate."


"But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone."


"The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way."


"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole."
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