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When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

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I only want power so I can get books.

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But it is cute. It's such a boy thing to do.Drop dead.Aw, you say the most romantic things.

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Ending up with that gigantic outsized brain must have taken some sort of runaway evolutionary process, something that would push and push without limi...more

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Someday," said the Boy-Who-Lived, "when the distant descendants of Homo sapiens are looking back over the history of the galaxy and wondering how it a...more

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The Headmaster told Professor Flitwick that this was, indeed, a secret and delicate matter of which he had already been informed, and that he did not ...more

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Lies propagate, that's what I'm saying. You've got to tell more lies to cover them up, lie about every fact that's connected to the first lie. And if ...more

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Sometimes Harry thought the deepest split in his personality wasn't anything to do with his dark side; rather it was the divide between the altruistic...more

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In a moral dilemma where you lost something either way, making the choice would feel bad either way, so you could temporarily save yourself a little m...more

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Then you get the wrong answer and you can't go to the Moon that way! Nature isn't a person, you can't trick them into believing something else, if you...more

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Without thinking about it at all, Harry stepped in front of Hermione.There was an intake of breath from behind him, and then a moment later Hermione b...more

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Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you’ve seen everything and know bett...more

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Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy childre...more

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And then Harry Potter had launched in to a speech that was inspiring, yet vague. A speech to the effect that Fred and George and Lee had tremendous po...more