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"People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault."
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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."

"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."

"Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting."

"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."

"The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones."

"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."

"When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings."

"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
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