“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
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“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
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“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.”
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The Life of a Book Addict
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