"Our children must follow in our footsteps; after all, we are older and know about the world."
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"We must dress according to the dictates of fashion, make love whether we feel like it or not, kill in the name of our country, wish time away so that retirement comes more quickly, elect politicians, complain about the cost of living, change our hairstyle, criticize anyone who's different, go to a religious service and beg forgiveness for our sins and puff ourselves up with pride because we know the truth and despise the other tribe who worships a false god."
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"We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must fast, even if we're starving."
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"What other people think is more important than what we feel."
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"When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul."
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"Never make a fuss-it might attract the attention of an enemy tribe."
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"Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body."
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"The brave are always stubborn"
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"The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend."
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"That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during, the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there."
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"The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself."
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"Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision."
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"And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise."
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"Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others."
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"Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve."
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"In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change."
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"There is always a gap between intention and action."
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"It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge."
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"He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence."
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"What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life."
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