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Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stilln...

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The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself.

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Haruki Murakami色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take car...

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My dear boy', Le Chiffre spoke like a father, 'the game of Red Indians is over, quite over. You have...

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When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your n...

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you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Surely the heart is not a fitting place to house hatred. But where is its place? I don't know. That ...

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No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Ffl...

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It's a weapon, I understand?""In the wrong hands, all tools are weapons. In the right hands, everyth...

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There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clea...

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Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely h...

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Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine—You gained your crowns by heritage, but Bloo...

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What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?I, who was born in a naked land and...

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The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.

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SocratesEssential Thinkers - Socrates

Why us?" he said. "Why is it happening to us?""Everything has to happen to someone," said Ginger.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Let us take heed how we laugh without reason, lest we cry with it.

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Charles DickensMartin Chuzzlewit

Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breas...

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