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“To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people.”
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“Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable-they should be taken absolutely seriously.”
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“I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.”
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“Evil can never survive, though for a time it may seem to triumph. It is only a question of our endurance and patience.”
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“Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.”
Source : Cornelius Lanczos (1970). “Space through the ages: The evolution of geometrical ideas from Pythagoras to Hilbert and Einstein”
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“I have touched here on a problem that is masked if one speaks of racism. And that is the fact that the major differences between the established and outsiders group, which create tension and irritation, is not the form of the face or the skin color but the form of behavior: something learned. The form of behavior and feeling, of sentiment, is different in the immigrant groups from that of the established groups, and that may give rise to an enormous irritation.”
Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
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“I've read the Bible, but I felt like a lot of the Bible was oppressive towards women. Then I read the Quran, and I thought it was also oppressive towards women.”