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"Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions."
"Maybe you won't find a place where you fit in for a very long time, but you eventually will."
"Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life."
"For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit."
"If you’re afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you’re not really fit to advocate for them."
"The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on."
"Don't fit in, don't sit still, don't ever try to be less than what you are..."
"Nobody’s as serious about health and fitness as me, and staying fit is my top priority."
"The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit."
"Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them."
"Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light."
"At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts."
"I think zombies would fit in anywhere. You can tell any story, and put zombies in it. I don't know how I'd find the backing, but I think it'd be great to make a zombie gangster movie."
"Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well."
"The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity."
"No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds."
"It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion."
"When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties"
"The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better."