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"We are only human when we are part of a community. ... I tried to isolate you, but it could not be done. I surrounded you with hostility; you took most of your enemies and rivals and made friends of them. ... You were a part of them; they carried you inside them all their lives."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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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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"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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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."
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"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."
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"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."
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"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."
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"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."
Power

"But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom."
Wisdom

"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."
Mortality

"I listen to music constantly while writing."
Music

"Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing."
Work

"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space."
Truth

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him."
Love

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
Actor

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
Acting

"Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing."
Psychology
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