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"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative."
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"I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state."

"Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative."

"When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative."

"Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution."

"So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way."

"Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant."
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"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."

"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."

"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."

"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law."

"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
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