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"You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness."
"...the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future."
"The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid."
"It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward."
"A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous."
"On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace."
"The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image."
"The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength."
"I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti."
"The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time."
"And I think my spaceship knows which way to go."
"Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are."
"I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do."
"She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short."
"The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration."
"I bowl my best when I am fittest and the best way to get fit is to bowl. That's how you get your rhythm. You cannot really find a rhythm by bowling in the nets."
"If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes."
"For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite."
"I find confidence seductive. Confidence, to me, is being happy in your own identity and not being influenced by others. I find that quite seductive because I'm a 50-50 person: in some ways I'm confident, and in some ways I'm quiet, reclusive. [I] like someone who can shake me out of that and approach me."
"I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one."
