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"A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip."
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"Know your limit and circle of influence, you are not called to meet the needs of everyone."
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"Do more than expected, promise less than you can keep."
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"I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself."
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"At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed."
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"People always say that digital cameras are much more stable than film cameras, but the truth is that digital cameras, or any kind of digital technology, is one of the most unstable things in the world. A film camera can last decades if you know how to look after it, but digital things can break down instantly. A violent storm, a nuclear bomb, even something as minor as a cracked screen or the releasing of newer models, can make a digital product just a block of useless metal."
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"You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up."
Time,
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"Once California belonged to Mexico and its land to Mexicans; and a horde of tattered feverish Americans poured in. And such was their hunger for land that they took the land, stole Sutter's land, Guerrero' s land, took the grants and broke them up and growled and quarreled over them, those frantic hungry men; and they guarded with guns the land they had stolen. They put up houses and barns, they turned the earth and planted crops. And these things were possession, and possession was ownership.The Mexicans were weak and fed. They could not resist, because they wanted nothing in the world as frantically as the Americans wanted land."
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"And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart."
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"If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do."
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"Do not fear the ghosts in this house; theyare the least of your worries.Personally I find the noises they make reassuring,The creaks and footsteps in the night,their little tricks of hiding things,or moving them, I findendearing, not upsettling. It makes the placefeel so much more like a home.Inhabited."
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"Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren't satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other."
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"Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity."
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"Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life."
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"What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?"
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"There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them."
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"The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons."
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"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."
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"Taking what is, then making it into what it can be through the power of creation that we all possess."
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"Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body."
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"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."
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"It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, because you brush harder and do a better job."
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"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."
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"Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped. Nothing exists except in an endless present in which the Party is always right."
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"No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself."
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"I don't really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits."
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"Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up."
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"Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will provide plenty of time for silence."
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"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."
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"He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped."
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"Pride helps us, and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt others."
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"Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency'."
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"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."
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"An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, "Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you're not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need."
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