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“... if knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.”
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“Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.”
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“What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!”
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“Old age is perhaps life's decision about us ...”
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“She was totally without religious faith but said that there was no point in being afraid of death since she wouldn't be there when it happened. None of us, of course, will be there when it happens, but it's being there before it happens that is the worrying part and whether we shall be there with mind intact or imprisoned in some limbo of pain, degradation and dependence.”
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“It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.”
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“... I had reached that convenient stage of terror which turns the corner and rounds upon courage ...”
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“When she was about sixty-eight years old, Brave Orchid took a day off to wait at San Francisco International Airport for the plane that was bringing her sister to the United States. She had not seen Moon Orchid for thirty years. She had begun this waiting at home, getting up a half-hour before Moon Orchid's plane took off in Hong Kong. Brave Orchid would add her will power to the forces that keep an airplane up.”