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Strangers... are just your friends that you don't know yet.
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Even when we love people, we're fairly philosophical about their suffering and what it will bring them!
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The best things in life are secret. And must stay that way, until we find them for ourselves.
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The art of keeping oneself acceptable may lie in the nimble ability to confirm what others think they know about us.
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He received most of his early schooling alone. In this way he may have escaped some educational dogmas and biases which often standardize a lively intellect.
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The protective coloration of the young is general brainlessness. So we soon learn to make silly sounds in order to pursue our thoughts in private.
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Words are sometimes the most expensive and dangerous luxuries between the generations.
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Prayers, I have no doubt, differ as widely as love-making or fun-making.
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The people in my house always think if you're talking on the telephone it is their chance to engage your other ear, without your being able to talk back.
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The simple remark was like a sharp knife splitting open a melon in one stroke... The words split open the future in a dazzling vision, showing seeds from which much trouble could grow.
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Memory is a slick politician who will support either side of the argument loyally.
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When half the world is still plagued by terror and distress, you stop guiltily sometimes in the midst of your house-laughter and wonder if you've a right to it. Ought any of us to laugh, until all of us can again, you ask yourself, sometimes.
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If work is not its own reward, there comes no other pay worth having.
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We are good friends because we never need forgive each other the gaucherie of eloquence.
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Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
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Miracles may be phosphorescent, so to speak; only to be seen in darkness.
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Nobody has ever written a juvenile book on 'How to win friends and influence people.' Children are born knowing.
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A child's business is an open yard, into which any passer-by may peer curiously. It is no house, not even a glass house. A child's reticence is a little white fence around her business, with a swinging, helpless gate through which grown-ups come in or go out, for there are no locks on your privacy.
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Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say, is what counts.
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If prayers are going to be answered at all, human beings probably have to answer them for each other.
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One person never tells anything about another person. Only about herself.
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A good buyer has two-faced eyes that see everything wrong with merchandise before it's bought, and everything right with it when it's to be sold again.
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All prayers, whatever form they assume, are of profit to the man who utters them; of that I have become convinced. What might seem like only a weak outcry to one man may serve as the fulcrum of courage to another.
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There is nothing more fatal than to give before asking has come from the deepest level of consciousness. Too many times I have rushed into this moment and killed it by my eagerness. Now I wait until I am sure.
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Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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