"What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?"
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"It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles."
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"The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts."
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"When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand."
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"If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it."
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"I look into my own black heart."
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"Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was."
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"When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest."
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"Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs."
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"I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work."
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"I won't tell you again! Don't look back! In hell you never look back!"
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"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."
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"This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them."
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"I must look past my capabilities and see God's possibilities"
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"In general, the attitude towards Nazi Germany was not that hostile, especially if you look at the U.S. State Department reports. In 1937 the State Department was describing Adolf Hitler as a "moderate" who was holding off the forces of the right and the left."
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"When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said."
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"What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane."
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"Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look."
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"If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether the image they construct is accurate."
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"When I am at home, I never watch TV, but when I am abroad in a hotel I take a look at the BBC to find out what's going on."
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