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Holly Near

"Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?"

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"Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?"

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

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