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"A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths."
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"High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible."

"Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school."

"You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be."

"Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum."

"The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second."

"Pragmatism is good prevention for problems."

"Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease."

"Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place."

"I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not."
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"Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground."

"But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best."

"Fate, they say, fate- the clay that molds the events of your life, and it was the same fate that had thrown the stone of her heart on the building of his expectations. But then wasn't it his fault that he had constructed the building of glass? Hadn't he failed to cement the bricks of his love with trust and colour them with security? There was no insurance for broken hearts, no ointment for wounded souls and there would never be one, he knew."

"There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap."

"She turned around to look at me with her enchanting gaze that further pierced my heart; a look I would never forget and I would retain till perpetuity and think of it always whenever she came to my mind. And that is not going to be a few times, if my heart is to have its way."

"I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms.I wanted to, but I did not!"
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