"I've heard doctors say that before the crisis hits, people don't want prolonged measures, but then in the middle of the crisis they want everything."

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Katy Butler

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“Having confidence is so important, because how you see yourself, is how others will see you too.”
“It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.”
“In a world that has lost a sense of sin, one sin remains: Thou shalt not make people feel guilty (except, of course, about making people feel guilty). In other words, the only sin today is to call something a sin.”
“We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I think, one has to prepare oneself with a good heart and indifference to accept things coming towards us, because they cannot be avoided, and to oppose them requires a violence that tears our souls too deeply, and it seems that both fortune and men are always busy in affairs for our dislike because the former is blind and the latter only think of their interest.”
“The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.”
“I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.”
“Reflection on the infinite seems to call, almost by definition, for infinite reflection.”
“I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you.”

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