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"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."
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"But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about it, but we still love it's beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there just because we wanted to touch the stars."

"When the unknown becomes known, we lose something very big: The beauty of mystery!"

"We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts."

"I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery."

"You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting."

"The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers."
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"Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes."


"Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it."


"I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind."


"If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone."


"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"


"I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead."
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