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"When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations."

"Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination."

"What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right, no one can be always right."

"To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don't give him poem to recite; don't give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is."

"Wisdom is the result of time well spent."

"Don't condemn what you can't comprehend."
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"Paradoxically, the more Michael kept me at a distance, the more I trusted him - perhaps because he was always willing to help me with tips and introductions even though he wanted absolutely nothing from me (and never reciprocated my nosiness with personal questions of his own with me)."

"Honest dishonesty. That's quite the oxymoron " but I like the originality that you've brought to bear in the art of rationalization. Maybe you should consider becoming a lawyer, he added jokingly."

"Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany."

"I'm not sure. But " unless I'm struggling with the darkness within " I like to sustain the illusion that death is actually much further from me than it really is."

"My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well."

"The male tax?'Yeah. The tax that men have to pay for not having to menstruate every month. Or risk getting pregnant. Or deal with the physically stronger sex in a macho world Women have to put up with all that stuff, so the least we men can do is pay the male tax and get the tab."

"But despite these and many other differences, Evan and Heeb had become close friends " an improbability that could have been produced only by the even greater improbabilities that brought them together."

"I had always been an atheist until I met Lenny. He was too wonderously complex and good for there to be no benevolent and intelligent force behind our marvelous cosmos. Lenny gave me the actual proof my fiercely skeptical mind had always demanded. Not some logical, 37-step proof of God's existence. It was a personal proof. And it was irrefutable."

"Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance."

"But I stayed up thinking about how I've been lying to him, no less than I lie to myself in my pre-sleep ritual. And I lied to him again just as we were growing more intimate than ever and he asked me about my scar."
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