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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story

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