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"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."
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"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told."
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"Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics."
Opportunity
"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."
Evil
"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."
Bible
"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."
Being
"Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life."
Life
"I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman."
Death
"Intolerance is evidence of impotence."
Empowerment
"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
Science
"Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle."
Animals
"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
Self-control
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