"Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity."

-- Tobias Wolff

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“If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning. If you're going to fight something, fight for those in need. If you're going to question something, question authority. If you're going to lose something, lose your inhibitions. If you're going to gain something, gain respect and confidence. And if you're going to hate something, hate the false idea that you are not capable of your dreams.”
“There is nothing new and nothing truthful in the false accusations against public officials make by the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation today, ... The simple reality is that the Schaghticoke fail to meet the criteria for federal recognition.”
“Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite--there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.”
“No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.”
“I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.”
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.”
“Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.”
“Humility and Gratitude are the twin characteristics of happiness.”

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