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Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.
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Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.


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I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.


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I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.


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Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.


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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.


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Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.
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Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.
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