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"What was your first impression of me?" "I can’t tell you that." "Why not?" "It would be ungentlemanly."

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Harder Than You Think

You don't stand for something You fall for anything

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The Fast Show

My parents could easily have afforded to send me to a public school, but they were liberals — they chose to educate me at a comprehensive. That makes me much more middle-class than you two.

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Alice in the Cities

The senses of hearing and seeing are lost, when a person loses a sense of self, and you lost that long ago.

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Cornel West

One ought to be suspicious of all forms of authority. One ought to be suspicious of all forms of obedience that require a certain kind of blind submission to authority.

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How Do You Live?

You take many things from the world, but I wonder what you will give back in return?

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Elephant

I hadn't told anybody about that night with you. Its memory existed in a place so remote from anything else in my experience that I struggled to explain it to myself, let alone anyone else. When you asked if I wanted to go home with you, I wasn’t sure what to say. Under different circumstances I might have suggested that we got to know each other a little first — perhaps went for a drink somewhere or exchanged numbers, but there were no different circumstances and none of those thoughts manifested as words.

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Compared to What

Said the President, he's got his war Folks don't know just what it's for No one gives us rhyme or reason You have one doubt, they call it treason

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Simone de Beauvoir

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

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Madmen | S1 E8 | The Hobo Code

Well, I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

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The God of Small Things

And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.

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First Person, Present Tense

A strange thing happened to me earlier today. I was sat on a curb eating a sandwich and a man approached me and asked if I was alright. ‘Rarely,’ I responded, somewhat impulsively. He looked somewhat surprised, probably because people rarely provide an honest answer to that question, but nonetheless, he sat down beside me. Neither of us said another word, we just sat there for a period of time until I stood up and walked away. Perhaps he was rarely alright either. Now, sat here eating dinner with my wife, I find myself wondering what will become of him. I never thought to ask if he himself was alright. People carry such woe beneath their skin.

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In Any Tongue

No sugar is enough To bring sweetness to his cup I know sorrow Tastes the same on any tongue

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Gene Roddenberry

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.

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Tokyo-Ga

I don't have the slightest recollection. I just don't remember anymore. I know I was in Tokyo. I know it was the spring of '83. I know I had a camera with me and I shot footage. These images now exist and they have become my memory. But I can't help thinking, if I had been there without the camera, I'd now be able to better remember.

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Georg Hegel

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.