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"Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' but remembers that there are things more important to him than what he is in the mood for at any given moment, and orders something else. Who is the sentimentalist?"
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"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
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"If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication."
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"It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil."
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"If you want to know the value of a month, ask a pregnant woman, if a month matters in her pregnancy."
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Personal Development
"Do not exchange your soul for money."
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Personal Development
"In so far as we cherish the tangibles, we must value the intangibles. The intangibles, though as latent as they may seem to be, they are solemnly tangible."
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"You will either have value, or be grist for the mill - nothing more."
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"Miracle focused messages propagates social vices instead of social virtues."
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"Life's value is lost when the pursuit of money becomes the goal as opposed to the pursuit of true happiness."
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"Want is an empty void - your real value is full and abundant."
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"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."
Parenting
"I said, 'I need to know how he died.'He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing."
Mystery
"People care about animals. I believe that. They just don't want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It's wrong. They're packed body to body, and can't escape their waste, and never see the sun. Their nails grow around the bars of their cages. It's wrong. They feel their slaughters. It's wrong, and people know it's wrong. They don't have to be convinced. They just have to act differently. I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own."
Compassion
"She was a prism through with sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."
Emotions
"There is no way to communicate to a dog that one is sorry that we live in the world but it is the only place that one can live. Or maybe there is no way not to communicate that."
Understanding
"Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?"
Joy
"If I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent."
Identity
"Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' but remembers that there are things more important to him than what he is in the mood for at any given moment, and orders something else. Who is the sentimentalist?"
Values
"It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that."
Reality
"You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you."
Life
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