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"Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
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"A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame."
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"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
Politics
"One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves."
Road
"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."
Fact
"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."
Ambition
"The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so."
Humor
"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."
People
"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn."
Style
"Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself."
Life
"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over."
Time
"The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes."
Money
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