The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

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We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

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We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

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There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

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People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

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If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

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I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

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In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

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The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

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To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

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Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.

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True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

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If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

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Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

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To be or not to be isn’t the question. The question is how to prolong being.

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The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe’s pajamas.

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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

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Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

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