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Alan Watts

"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."

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"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."

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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

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"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."

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"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

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"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

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"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."

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"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."

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"Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line."

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"I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are."

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"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

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