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“It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think nothing of letting them associate with the same type every day on TV.”
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“Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus.”
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“We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.”
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“I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.”
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“once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.”
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“The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.”
Source : "A Book of French Quotations" edited by Norbert Guterman, 1963.
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“You have to take chances.”
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“Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.”
Source : Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.138
