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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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Personal Development
"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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"Large families are communities unto their own."
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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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"Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing."
Language
"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."
Answers
"The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."
Man
"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."
Answers
"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
Conviction
"I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact."
Men
"Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe."
Society
"The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions."
Answers
"Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation."
Absurdity
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