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“In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.”
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“Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.”
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“A convention on the comprehensive ban of nuclear weapons should be negotiated. Since biological and chemical weapons have been prohibited, there is no reason why nuclear weapons, which are more destructive, should not be comprehensively banned and thoroughly destroyed. All it takes to reach this objective is strong political will.”
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“We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.”
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“God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.”
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“Maybe when I'm done being an attorney general I'll go out and do something that will really benefit people's lives and become a USANA distributor.”
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“No, I have something else between my legs.”
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“I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.”