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- ... He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a…
- All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
- And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part…
- He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory…
- Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that…
- I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like…
- And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what…
- Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it…
- What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Friendship is not only about sharing each and everything having long conversation, hanging out, its about having complete trust in each other… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle