"I don't rely on anybody except my own judgment. I don't get much input. I don't know if that's helped me or if I would be better off if I did rely on someone."
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"I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director."
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"Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume."
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"I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there."
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"If you look at the world now its one that we couldn't have imagined in 1997! That I would be able to hit a button and a taxi will show up? We wouldn't have believed that everything is disposable!"
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"Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?"
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"Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after."
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"The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed."
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"Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be."
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"I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable."
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"There would be no sequel to the sadness"
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"Having a clone would make it so much easier - it would be great to send a clone to a TV station when I have to get up at 4am."
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"Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination." "No, this is an execution." "The difference would be...?" "Assassination is murder. Execution is justice."
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"This would be so much easier if they actually issued black hoods."
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"Jace. This can't happen." I closed my eyes, thinking it would be easier to say without him looking back at me. But it wasn't. "This isn't about us. I can't leave Marc."
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"I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I've done, but I'm sure my list would never be complete. I also don't believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions...I don't believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all."
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"Why would the factionless have a high Divergent population?" It sounds like she's smirking. "Obviously those who can't confine themselves to a particular way of thinking would be most likely to leave a faction or fail its initiation, right?"
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"I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity."
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"I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe."
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"It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered."
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