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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.
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Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.
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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.


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The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.


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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.


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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.


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Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.


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