"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter."

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“A lot of people are afraid of heights; not me, I'm afraid of widths.”

“Sometimes you cannot hear me, it's because sometimes I'm in parentheses.”

“Sometimes I talk to myself fluently in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious.”

“I tried to hang myself with bungie cords. I kept almost dying.”

“In school they told me "Practice makes perfect." And then they told me "Nobody's perfect," so then I stopped practicing.”

“It's a good thing a lot of people speak foreign languages, otherwise those people would have no one to talk to.”

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"The historical Jesus will be to our time a stranger and an enigma. The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had fou…"

— Albert Schweitzer

Philosophy1921–2023

#education

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— A. R. Rahman

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"I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin"

— Alexander Mackenzie

Politics1764–1820

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