"Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them."
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"I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow."
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"Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man."
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"Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle."
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"If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators… saying they will not tolerate this."
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"Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake."
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"Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things."
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"But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me."
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"In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the thrill of angling would be gone."
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"Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp."
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"Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul."
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"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years."
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"If there was one thing I’d like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean."
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"No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year."
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"I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe."
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"I guess I'm fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize 'I guess', because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have."
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"The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a greater way of being in which yet their own ways and powers would be, not suppressed or abolished, but perfected and fulfilled by the self-exceeding."
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"I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader - that anybody could have."
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"I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic."
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"It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us."
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