"Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be."
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"The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me."
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"We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil."
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"As a Beatle, my everyday life belonged to the public in one way or another. We were always appearing for the public in the early days, or we were planning for them, producing for them, interviewing for their sake, etc."
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"We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand."
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"I learned to walk when I was ten months old and I've been walking this way ever since."
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"There's a way out of every situation."
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"The best way to learn to swim is to dive."
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"There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life."
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"One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there."
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"A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world."
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"You have only one way to convince others, listen to them."
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"The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way."
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"The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's."
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"We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else."
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"The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe them: not because it is true but because it's easier. It's just the easy way out."
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"If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable."
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"Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world."
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"For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations."
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"To let sorrow go his own way one gives happiness a chance"
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