"God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't."
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"And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love."
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"We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal."
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"Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others."
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"To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind."
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"The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself."
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"Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions."
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"When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into the deeper part of our being. At that time, we are able to bring to the fore the wealth that we have deep within us."
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"There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable."
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"We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it."
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"For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant."
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"As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can't."
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"I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise."
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"A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment."
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"Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way."
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"The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts."
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"Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security. By constant communion with others we hope we shall be able to accept the horrible fact of our total solitude."
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"There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty."
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"What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more."
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"Here's the real thing. Democrats got to understand that the first line in the Republican playbook is going to be smear, you know? And there's nobody who's going to be able to avoid it."
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