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"Once I knew what was bothering me, the greater part of my uneasiness left. Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear."
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"Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer."

"The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy."

"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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"This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done."

"This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk."

"What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first."

"I am Edema Ruh to my bones. That means my blood is red. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines."

"You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows."

"My father referred to it as "the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers." He made me play it when I was getting too full of myself and felt I needed humbling. Suffice to say I practice it with fair regularity, sometimes more than once a day."

"Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry."

"So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it."
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