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"Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury."
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"Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?"
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"Now, his hair is white and he no longer understands anyone's need to love, for he has lost everything, not to love, but to his games of love; and when you love as a game, you lose everything, as he lost his home and wife, and now he clings to me, afraid of loss, afraid of solitude."
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"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
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"I'd gotten on the piss and it had kicked me the fuck off. Hard."
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"We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our hero."
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"Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis:Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God."
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"When we discover that nothing and no one has the power to define or confine our inner light, then we understand that no one can limit our divine plans."
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"There is always a way out, as there is a way in."
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"They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie."
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"Brick and blood built Astapor, and brick and blood her people."
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"In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it."
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"The scandal with the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is how it managed to obtain a construction permit to build a manned telescope in a known biologically toxic environment to workers. How many more people need to die, get injured or develop long term very high altitude sickness that will last a lifetime?"
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"The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth."
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"The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual."
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"Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive."
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"Even while in the midst of failures, focus on your future victories."
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"The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person."
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"In the art of magic be quick of sleight and slow of climax."
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"It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads."
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"Without inquiring too deeply into the causes which make it possible to find subjects of gaiety always close at hand, the proof of that possibility can be found in the fact that persons of sensitive intelligence are capable of finding comic potentialities in everything and everybody, thereby demonstrating that if some people hold the belief that there is very little that is laughable in the world, the reason is that they lack the ability to find it."
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"In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance."
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"Beware: If you egg people on, you'll get egg on your face."
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"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."
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"My life wasn't just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.Permanently."
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"What differentiates humans from all other creatures is the deep and unquenching desire to be appreciated."
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"People cannot escape the looming specter of a deathwatch and the imposing emptiness that comes with the termination of their existence. People resist going silently into the night. We seek to howl at the moon and make known our search for a diagrammatic overture that voices our unquantifiable existence."
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"You're as plain as the nose on your face, said Mr. Pennyworth. "And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest of your face, young man. As are you. For the sake of all that is holy, empty your mind. Now. You are an empty alleyway. You are a vacant doorway. You are nothing. Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody."
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"Only use the mind for practical ways in life. Use your deep inner body energy, observation and breath to glide through life."
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"When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?"
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