"I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you."
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""It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.""
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"I am not perfect. I just think that imperfections are beautiful."
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"Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, 'That's gay, dog!' And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it, fam.'"
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"You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers."
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"I don't like to think of it as being fired. Instead, I prefer to think of it as being on indefinite leave with a sabbatical flair."
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"I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid."
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"That wand’s more trouble than it’s worth,” said Harry. “And quite honestly,” he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, “I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime."
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"I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him."
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"The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write."
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"People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'"
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"I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."
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"This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness."
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"I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires."
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"I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement."
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"Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering."
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"I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is."
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"What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks."
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"I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!"
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"Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will."
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