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“Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.”
“The mother was looking at nothing and listening to nothing but herself. Itll kill me, doctor! Ill die of shame! I made no attempt to dissuade her. I didnt know what to do. We could see the father p...”
“There is no doubt that we are a very cruel people,' Winston Churchill wrote home from the front. 'Severity always,' went the British motto, 'justice when possible.”
“If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further.”
“Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing.”
“In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.”
“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. It's sort of what we have instead of God.”
“Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.”
“Youre brave. Youre good. Why would you hesitate to explore yourself? Your dark nooks and crannies? With someone who is fascinated by the whole of you? You arent a bad woman, merely a human one, whi...”
“But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.”
“There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.”
“Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.”
“For the most part people went about their business with an entirely irresponsible confidence in the stability of the universe.”
“We humans desperately seek stability in hopes, I think, that we can control our lives, though that isn't the way things work. Everything is in flux; we are dynamic beings born with expiration dates...”
“Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!”
“I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.”
“If I love order, it's not the mark of a character subjected to an inner discipline, a repression of the instincts. In me the idea of an absolutely regular world, symmetrical and methodical, is asso...”
“People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither of us know anything substantial about the other.”
“We have a tendency to describe the human condition in lofty terms, such as a quest for freedom or striving for a virtuous life, but the life sciences hold a more mundane view: Its all about securit...”
“Much of the difficulty in attempting to restructure American and other societies arises form this resistance by groups with vested interests in the status quo. Significant change might require thos...”
