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More solid than the ground under your feet when you are little, more solid than rock when you need to lean, harder than rock when the learning becomes a danger, when it's time for you to walk alone.
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To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
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If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it.
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A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
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Selfishness is blind.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.
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Eloquence may set fire to reason.
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Our civilization has essentially globalized only the surfaces of our lives. But our inner self continues to have a life of its own. And the fewer answers the era of rational knowledge provides to the basic questions of human Being, the more deeply it would seem that people, behind its back as it were, cling to the ancient certainties of their tribe. Because of this, individual cultures, increasingly lumped together by contemporary civilization, are realizing with new urgency their own inner autonomy and the inner differences of others.
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