When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
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Me, what's that after all An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off, I begin, and vice versa.
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After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
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Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
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Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.
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