"The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time."
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"Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious."
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"Religion is what a man does with his solitariness."
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"Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her."
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"Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man."
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"I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed."
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"The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question."
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"Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it."
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"It does feel really good to sing songs about somebody that I really respect, admire, love, care about and am so passionately attracted to after all this time."
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"I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish."
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"Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent."
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"Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author."
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"What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?"
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"Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves."
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"The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does."
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"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free."
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"Eternity is the now that does not pass away."
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"For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will."
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"Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you."
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"Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you."
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