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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

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As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

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What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it;
boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

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The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

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Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

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Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

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I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

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People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

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Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

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