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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.


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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.



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We can only learn to love by loving.



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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.



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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.



He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.



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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.



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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.



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