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"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."
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"Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live."
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"We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons."
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"Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil."
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"Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did."
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"A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity-or none at all-with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it. Throughout history societies have found ways of using this store of aggression, turning their adolescents into soldiers, cannon fodder with which to conquer their neighbors or defend themselves against their aggressors."
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"No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure."
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"Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we should be, how we should be."
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"Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women."
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"At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds acceptance and belonging as immensely important. In other words, it's never been more impossible to 'fit in,' yet 'fitting in' has never been more important and valued."
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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermín had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That’s the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."
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"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
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"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves."
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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
Body

"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
Soul

"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it."
Soul

"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."
Evil

"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."
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