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"Turns out rolling your eyes in a bar when 'Land Down Under' plays is like someone belching during the Star Spangled Banner in America."

"The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability."

"What was worse, he couldn't tell her how much he thought he maybe might kinda sorta love her."

"I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."

"There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone."

"I embrace my sensitivity and let it enhance my joy every day."

"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."

"It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl."

"Everything feels right with the world......and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken."

"It seems my heart is made of tissue paper, I wish the world would handle it more delicately."
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"It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one."

"The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves."

"Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals."

"What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos."

"The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word."

"The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency."

"These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals."

"My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success."
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