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“We travel not to discover new lands or new people, but new selves.”
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“Dr. Johnson said that telling one's troubles was asking for pity or praise. ... But it is more than that. You ask to be met at the point of your reality.”
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“Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case. ”
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“Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise.”
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“Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.”
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“... it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.”
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“The sisters walked back to Chinatown. ... They walked past the vegetable, fish, and meat markets — not as abundant as in Canton, the carp not as red, the turtles not as old — and entered the cigar and seed shop. Brave Orchid filled her sister's thin hands with carrot candy, melon candy, and sheets of beef jerky.”
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“Finding out about fathers is not easy. It's only in the last twenty years that they have been considered by the psychological community as much more than the 'other' parent, taking a very distant second place to Mom.”