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The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
 
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
 
Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
 
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
 
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.
 
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
 
The status quo sucks.
 
CORPORATION: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
 
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
 
Woman was God's second mistake.
 
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
 
Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.
 
The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.
 
Friendship is a pact, a convention. Two beings tacitly promise never to broadcast what each really thinks of the other. A kind of alliance based on compromises. When one of them publicly calls attention to the other's defects, the pact is declared null and void, the alliance broken. No friendship lasts if one of the partners ceases to play the game. In other words, no friendship tolerates an exaggerated proportion of honesty.
 
A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness
 
Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.
 
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
 
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
 
Isn't keeping statistics on violence a form of violence?
 
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. 
 
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