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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Graham Greene

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Choice Moments Story

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