“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
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ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
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“For you, a thousand times over”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
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