The simplest questions are the most difficult.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSMost of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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