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"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead."
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"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."

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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."
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"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."

"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."

"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."

"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
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