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“There are some people on Earth who reach eight hundred
measures or more, Peter."
"More than you!"
"Of course. My advantage is that I know certain things that they ignore, and that helps me not to be very clumsy; but here there are very valuable people: teachers, artists, nurses, firefighters..."

“It is better to trust and be cheated than to distrust”

There were about a dozen other offers from people in Singapore (who offered to pay off the loan) but she turned each of them down. It was her folly; she felt that in only she should pay for it.

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“I don’t teach morality/virtue - because I know they without awareness they are just pretensions”

Very interesting perspective on morality (and helps to reconcile the flaws of societal-dictate virtues because they are fluid and change over generations). Denouncing moral virtues and reclassifying acts purely based on awareness/unawareness is a new concept for me.