"When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working."
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"I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are."
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"Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater."
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"The needs of a society determine its ethics."
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"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water."
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"If I thought of the number of people who were watching me as I got ready to shoot, I?d miss it."
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"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't."
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"No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work."
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"You are the power in your world! You get to have whatever you choose to think!"
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"Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you are planning...What are you planning?"
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"The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions."
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"God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore."
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"The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years."
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"All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place."
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"Every single person who's drifted in and out of your life is a part of your divinely chosen experience. So, give thanks for all of these people, and take serious note of what they brought you."
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"If we live truly, we shall see truly."
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"God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance."
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"You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out."
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"The improvement of relations with German is positive, but this does not mean that we no longer have very important problems."
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"There is no influence like the influence of habit."
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