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"In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings."
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"I've come to learn that being alone is better than being next to someone and feeling alone."
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"Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on."
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"Arguing with one's self is beneficial.Out of all the million voices in my head screaming for your death, you're lucky I heeded the one that wants to spare you this time."
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"If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil."
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"Happiness is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it."
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"At times, the confident lose confidence, the patient lose their cool, the generous act selfish, and the knowledgeable second guess what they know. And guess what? We're all human. We all make mistakes, we lose our tempers, and we get caught off guard. We stumble, we slip, and we spin out of control sometimes. But that's usually the worst of it. We all have our moments. Most of the time, we're remarkable. So stand beside the people you love through their trying times of imperfection, and offer yourself the same courtesy. For more tips on how to live a productive life, read "The Angel Affect" and join the mission."
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"Don't keep all your feelings sheltered - express them. Don't EVER let life shut you up."
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"Something was dead in each of us,and what was dead was hope."
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"One can find so many pains when the rain is falling."
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"A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something that would make you mad if it happened to you."
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"Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle."
Literature
"Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."
Money
"In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust."
War
"The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured."
Justice
"People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War."
War
"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."
Crisis
"There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."
Old
"I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months."
Journalism
"Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived."
Journalism
"When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself."
Man
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