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"True enemies aren't always the ones who hate each other."
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"Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks."

"Nothing here is like fighting vampires,' I said. 'It's more like fighting smoke. I think I liked it when I had an actual enemy to face.''Oh, don't worry, you have some. We just haven't seen them yet,' Jesse said. 'But we will. And wham we do...' She showed fang, just a flash; anybody who happened to catch a glimpse would have doubted their sanity, especially since the teeth disappeared in a flash. 'When we do, we'll settle this Morganville style."

"I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan."

"On the one hand you had people constantly fighting Hell; on the other, you had people constantly fighting Hell on earth."

"Never hesitate for a second to separate yourself from those who speak ill of other people's success, because sooner or later when you become successful, they would surely start speaking ill of you and become your biggest enemies."

"Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful."

"Forgiveness and Blame share an apartment, but not for long, because Blame can't live with Forgiveness, and Forgiveness can't live with Blame."

"Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims."
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"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world."

"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other."

"I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it."

"From Jeff Greenfield: 'I once asked Elie Wiesel 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' 'An optimist,' he said. 'I have to be."

"Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread."

"Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die."

"Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments."
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