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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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"Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution."
"I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking."
"There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative."
"You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job."
"I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted."
"When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative."
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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
"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."
"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."
"The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all."
"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."
"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
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