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"She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind."
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"Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer."
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"Words don't have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess."
"Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear."
"For how long are the people who seek for the approval of others keep putting their self-worth in the hands of people?"
"Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness."
"Physiology and Psychology are not at all separate from each other. Rather they are deeply intertwined."
"Overriding the old information in your mind with new information is easy, but to actually go further than just putting a veneer over your old mindset is the way forward."
"We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them."
"I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains."
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"Pretty, was she?""Pretty?" he echoed. "Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings and not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be."
"Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical."
"All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!"
"... the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the newgovernment owned human slaves. They used human beings for machinery, and, evenafter slavery was eliminated, because it was so embarrassing, they and theirdescendants continued to think of ordinary human beings as machines."
"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."
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