"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."
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"Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide."
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"Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?"
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"While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
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"So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too."
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"Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow."
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"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
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"The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead."
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"All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind."
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"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
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"Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of us. And I sure miss the polar bears. Their babies are so warm and cuddly and trusting, just like ours."
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"Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
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"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."
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"Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God."
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"Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style."
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"Being an American means never having to say you're sorry."
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"We are what we imagine ourselves to be."
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"Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is."
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"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."
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"Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about."
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