"‘I am not who I was, but I know who I am.’"

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“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”

“‘You cheated.’ ‘No, I exploited a weakness in my opponent. There is a difference.’”

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“Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it, the more it gnawed away at who he was.”

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“Change is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.”

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"I didn't know what made things tick. I didn't know what made people want to be friends. I didn't know what made people attractive to one another. I didn't know what underlay social interactions."

— Ted Bundy

Music1946–1989

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"You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple."

— Richard Adams

Literature1920–2016

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"The European Enlightenment: Jean-Jacques Rousseau"

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosophy1946–2014

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"This is a ping-pong game with American lives. These young men and women that we put in Anbar province, in Iraq, in Baghdad, are not beans. They're real lives. And we better be damn sure we know what w…"

— Chuck Hagel

Politics1946

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