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  1. Scott Westerfeld _ Uglies

    That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.
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  2. Monica Ali _ Brick Lane

    while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.
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  3. Richard P. Feynman _ The Meaning of It All:

    Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these days of specialization there are too few people who have such a deep understanding of two departments of our knowledge that they do not make fools of themselves in one or the other.
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  4. Richard P. Feynman _ The Meaning of It All:

    I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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  5. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Changing Planes

    Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.
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  6. Chuck Palahniuk _ Lullaby

    The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
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  7. E.A. Bucchianeri _ Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

    Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.
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  8. Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore

    According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people.In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half.
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  9. Tom Robbins _ Jitterbug Perfume

    On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.
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  10. Tom Robbins _ Jitterbug Perfume

    The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
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  11. Tom Robbins _ Jitterbug Perfume

    All dreams continue in the beyond.
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  12. Tom Robbins _ Jitterbug Perfume

    Perhaps the most terrible {or wonderful} thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse {or blessing} of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.
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