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"As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful."
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"If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?"Make them stay."And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?"Ellie shrugged. "I don't know."Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away."

"There is no sharper spear than wisdom. There is no larger shield than faith. There is no better fortress than truth. There is no greater strength than hope. There is no higher power than love."

"You have to fight great battles to guard your mind, extraordinary battles to protect your heart, and remarkable battles to defend your soul."

"When dragons attack, the only thing you should seek to stand behind is your own sword."

"Being love-filled and beautiful is one of the most powerful defenses that one can employ."

"You must hiss at people who intend to undermine your individuality with their false pride and intellectual stupidity. You must frighten them away, lest they should do you harm. Act like you have a lot of venom inside you, but never inject them into anyone."

"To destroy that which seeks to destroy me, God invites me to stand against it until it stands down and then falls down."

"I am a siren, and for my adoration of mankind, have been caught in fishing nets one time too many. And in those fishing nets I have learned too many unfavorable things about human intentions and the lack of trust and goodwill; I'm not going to allow myself to be caught, anymore. Sirens do well at singing the sirens' song and dragging vile people to their deaths, and for good reason!"
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"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."

"Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests."

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

"Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters."

"Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains, they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented."

"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

"Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference, we should each be treated with appropriate respect."

"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
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