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"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
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"Another very important aspect of the Protestant teachings is that money is simply a by-product, a natural consequence, a compensation, it is never the goal."
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"Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy."
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"You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity."
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"Never let the occasional delays in your life dampen your dreams."
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"If you were called to gallop like the horse, never end up hopping like the frog. Rise up for greatness."
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"The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers."
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"Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed."
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"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
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"On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away."
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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
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"Life can be a misunderstanding, if we are ignorant of the right language or don't try to learn it. — If lions could speak, we would not understand them. — says Ludwig Wittgenstein. If we make an effort, however, we could manage to understand. ['Life was a misunderstanding']"
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"The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said."
Art,
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"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything."
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"The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government."
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"Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!"
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"Even though you're not my type, gender wise, you're certainly my type, person-wise."
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"When you begin to expect miracles, Jesus feels insulted."
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"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
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"I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you."
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"In high altitude astronomical facilities we routinely discharged large amounts of nitrogen gas into closed spaces. We were never informed by the astronomy management team about the abnormally low oxygen environments that the use of liquid nitrogen creates, how long term exposure to it manifests itself in human health and the resulting abnormal mental behaviors."
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"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."
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"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
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"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."
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"Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent."
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"Let's agree to be honest from the start. I would rather feel the disappointment that comes with the realization that we are incompatible than to feel the pain and betrayal that comes with finding out that you're full of crap."
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"If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets."
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"Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life - it is very fleeting Do not identify with your thoughts - continued indentification with the stream of thinking leads to a very serious dysfunction in ones sense of identity."
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"Like a floating feather in the air, take life very lightly and joyfully adjust to the flow of life."
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