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“Teen-agers have their hangups, / Every mother knows. / But one thing is for certain; / That doesn't include their clothes.”
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“This woman always has plenty to say but she never says anything unless it's already been said by somebody else. With her it's always 'my husband maintains' or 'according to the Daily Express' or 'a man on television was saying last night,' and never I say or I think.”
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“People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.”
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“If you're sure you know the solution, you are part of the problem.”
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“In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.”
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“... you can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.”
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“Each connection that neuroscientists forged between a neurochemical and a behavior, and that geneticists made between a gene and a behavior, dealt another blow to the notion of an efficacious will. The discoveries paint[ed] an image of individuals as automatons, slaves to their genes or their neurotransmitters, and with no more free will than a child's radio-controlled car. [But] because neuroplasticity and the power of mind and mental training effect changes in the very structure and function of our brain, free will and moral responsibility become meaningful in a way that they have not been for some time in the scientific West.”
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“Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.”