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Quotes by Writer
"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom."
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"Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway."
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"When a person is devastated, it coneys that the individual is regretting for his or her mistakes."
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"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
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"Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age."
Age,
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"If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that there is no more death..."
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"Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument."
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"Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds."
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"Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification."
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"Love is a feeling which you can't change but its change you,Beloved is a person whom you can't replace with anyone but you replace your wishes with his or her wishes."
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"Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible."
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"Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever."
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"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true."
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"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."
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"No where in 'humpty dumpty' did it say he was an egg. Maybe your inability to think outside of what others have taught you is what's keeping you from putting him together again."
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"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."
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"A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them."
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"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet."
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"Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself."
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"One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen."
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"The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little."
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"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."
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"There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition."
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"Thoughts are ghosts of emotions."
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"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."
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"The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future."
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"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."
God,
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"Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little."
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"I would have to go back into my past and deal with Adrian. My philosopher friend, who gazed on life and decided that any responsible, thinking individual should have the right to reject this gift that had never been asked for - and whose noble gesture re-emphasised with each passing decade the compromise and littleness that most lives consist of. 'Most lives': my life."
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"I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else."
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