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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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It's easy to be heavy; hard to be light.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even in acquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy like a bird in spring.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
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Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.
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