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"An Odonian's goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive."
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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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"I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination."
"We live well in the houses, well enough, but we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars. Now, we dare not go 100 miles from home. We keep a little knowledge and do nothing with it, but once we used that knowledge to weave the pattern of life like a tapestry across night and chaos. We enlarged the chances of life."
"Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together."
"Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask.""But you're the Answerers!""You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?""No""""To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question."
"You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been."
"We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin."
"There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and wish for power. You cannot say good morning without knowing which of you is 'superior' to the other, or trying to prove it. You cannot act like a brother to other people, you must manipulate them, or command them, or obey them, or trick them. You cannot touch another person, yet they will not leave you alone. There is no freedom."
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