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"There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters."


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The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
Paul Karl Feyerabend

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
Lao Tzu

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
Jules Renard

"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."
Nan Fairbrother

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Theresa

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C Clarke

"I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels."
Anthony Trollope