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"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."
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"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."

"Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem."

"The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately."

"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."

"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."

"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."

"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver."

"Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow."

"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."

"We never repent of having eaten too little."
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"Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise."


"It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion."


"I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life."


"He talking Louisiana, you speaking Tennessee. The music so different, the sound coming from a different part of the body. It must of been like hearing lyrics set to scores by two different composers. But when you made love he must of have said I love you and you understood that and it was true, too, because I have seen the desperation in his eyes ever since-no matter what business venture he thinks up."


"My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children."


"The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love."


"Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence."


"I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive."
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