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“It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.”
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“It was often difficult to think of an apt quotation when one was in a hurry.”
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“Infants are interesting only to their parents.”
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“When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.”
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“... she was schooled in suffering now. It did not scare her the way it did those whose lives were still untouched. Some people treated the grief of others like a disease that you could catch if you got too close. She knew better. She knew that it was a club that no one ever joined by choice. A club whose members had shared the most brutal of initiations.”
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“... intuition of spiritual truth is something you already have inside you. ... This kind of truth is recognized, not learned.”
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“The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.”
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“I'm not one o' those as can see the cat i' the dairy, an' wonder what she's come after.”