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“Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.”
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“Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.”
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“But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
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“The very worst thing that can happen to anyone, I am convinced, is any form of brain disease. Physical problems pilfer from the body, but mental problems are identity thieves. Intractable mental illness sucks the personality — the very soul — from human beings as tornadoes suck air from buildings, causing them to implode.”
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“Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.”
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“Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.”
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“When motherhood becomes the fruit of deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.”
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“The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.”