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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes
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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.
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Sometimes I see myself driving through hell with this wagon and selling brimstone. And sometimes I’m driving through heaven handing our provisions to wandering souls! If only we could find a place where there’s no shooting, me and my children—what’s left of ‘em—we might rest a while.
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Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.
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O blindness of the great!They go their way like gods,Great over bent backs,Sure of hired fists,Trusting in the powerWhich has lasted so long.But long is not forever.O change from age to age!Thou hope of the people!
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We're not responsible, he thought. This planet is a temporary affair. It's whizzing with all kinds of other ones, a whole range of planetary stuff, toward a star in the Milky Way. On that kind of a planet we're not responsible, he thought.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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