"God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully."
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"Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames."
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"The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be."
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"Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite."
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"Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose."
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"For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good."
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"It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn."
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"Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him."
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"Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted."
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"Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him."
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"Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision."
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"God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered."
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"He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom."
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"One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions."
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"Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can."
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"You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?"
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"Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell."
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"All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move."
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"If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight."
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"A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right."
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