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Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Problem solving Hunting Savage pleasure
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I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.

Love myself Never apologize
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He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.

He lives Rib cage Dry leave Heart
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There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.

Common emotion Recognize Happy anticipation Feel contempt
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You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.
Cat do Hide Die Dogs
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It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

Healing Childhood home Measure Broken
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How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.

How seldom The sound Bolt Our fate
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One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

Only see One observes Mind
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One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

One quality Person Rule out Exist
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Don't think you can persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

Think Persuade me Appeals Intellectual vanity
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Intense fear comes in waves; the body can’t stand it for long at a time.

Intense fear Waves Body Stand
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He knew that a middle-aged man can be so desperate for wisdom he may try to make some up, and how deadly that can be to a youngster who believes him.

Middle age Man So desperate Wisdom
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The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion.

First step Development Taste Credit
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We don't begin to covet with imagined things. Coveting is a very literal sin–we begin to covet with tangibles, we begin with what we see every day.

Begin Covet Imagine things Literal sin
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It's hard and ugly to know someone can understand you without even liking you.

Hard Ugly Someone Understand you
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He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him.

Feed Caterpillar Whisper Nature
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Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

Be led Talent Self loathing Things
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I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

Want Change The world Valuable
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My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.

Life Embarrassing incidents Strung Telling people
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Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.

Life Never.postcard Feel like Look
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People don't realize that the future is just now, but later.

People Realize Future Just now
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I know that's the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I always think, 'You don't mean that, you just think it sounds good.

People say Really hate Things
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Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.

Murderers Stop Everyone Will die
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Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

Life Theme park Death
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When you fall in love you recognize you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

Fall In love Recognize Important person
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I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.

Cross The line You drew Traversed it
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I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains.

Close friendships Tidal beat Pulls you Ocean
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A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo.

Personality Incredibly beautiful Pointless cargo
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Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease.

Animals Children Working class Company
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A small minority cannot control an uncooperative majority, so they must be distracted, divided, tyrannized, or anesthetized into compliance.

Small minority Uncooperative majority Distracted Tyrannized
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We have been told that freedom is the ability to pursue petty, trivial desires when true freedom is freedom from these petty, trivial desires.

Freedom Ability Pursue petty Trivial desires
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I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.

Struggle Madness Positive aspect My character
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By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

By puberty Learned Nothing worth Easily attained
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The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

Only revolution Change World Own consciousness
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Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.

Spurred Army's death Salvage unwilling Victims
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I used to believe in the system that I was born into: aspire, acquire, consume, get famous and glamorous, get high and mighty, get paid and laid.

Believe System Born Aspire
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The only meaningful interpretation of any religious teaching is to honor the divine within ourselves and love the divine in one another.

Meaningful interpretation Religious teaching Honor
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Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does what it wants... I wish it would do more interesting things!

Being famous Taken away Goes off Lives
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Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Strength Have Belligerent Loud
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The most potent tool in maintaining the status quo is our belief that change is impossible.

Most potent Maintaining Status quo Change
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If you don't choose heroes, heroes will be chosen for you, and they will not represent values that empower you, they will represent powers that will enslave you
Choose heroes Chosen Represent values Empower
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That's what keeps me alive, perversion and star quality.

Keeps me Alive Perversion Quality
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Every moment is a fresh new beginning, a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.

Every moment Fresh new Beginning Wonderful inauguration
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All desires are the inappropriate substitute for the desire to be at one with God.

All desire Inappropriate substitute God
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We are imprisoned within, hypnotized without, denying ourselves access to the internal peace and external harmony. Can we execute the perfect jailbreak when we have become our own jailers?

Imprisoned within Hypnotized Denying ourselves
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My modus operandi is that I'll be content with anything, as long as I know that it's the best that's possible.

Content Anything Best Possible
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Words Powerful drug Mankind
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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

Never made Mistake Life Afterwards
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble

Prefer Believe Best Everybody
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

History Taught Stories Forgotten
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