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People don't help much.


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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.



We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.



I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.



We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.



I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.



The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.



I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.



I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.



My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.



At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.





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Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not

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intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

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I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more, ' but it's only the moment.

I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more, ' but it's only the moment.



Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.



The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.



...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.



Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.

Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.



If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.

If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.



Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something



The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.




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