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• confused
• frustration
• sharing

...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared. Dean Koontz

• learning
• friends
• thinking

In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice. Pat Conroy

• feeling
• world
• dumb

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me. Susan Sontag

• love
• fear
• being love

It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli Laurell K. Hamilton

• life
• men
• imagination

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination. Enoch Powell

• cool
• brain
• brainly

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains. Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend. More than cool reason ever comprehends. William Shakespeare

• appearance
• appearances
• would

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught. Quintilian

• desperate
• powerful
• powerful women

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. Lois McMaster Bujold

• inspirational
• history
• culture

In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery. Isaac Asimov

• impossible
• impossibilities
• unforeseen

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen. Victor Hugo

• time
• happy
• freedom

Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they themselves have brought us their freedom and obediently laid it at our feet. It is our doing, but is it what you wanted? This sort of freedom?' Again I don't understand', Alyosha interrupted, 'Is he being ironic? Is he laughing?' Not in the least. He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues' credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• powerful
• society
• love

But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label the dissenters of authoritarianism as unpatriotic or uncaring. Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security. Understanding the magnificent rewards of a free society makes us unbashful in its promotion, fully realizing that maximum wealth is created and the greatest chance for peace comes from a society respectful of... Ron Paul

• wishes
• fish
• real friends

There's nothing sweeter than a real friend: Not only is he prompt to lend— An angler delicate, he fishes The very deepest of your wishes, And spares your modesty the task His friendly aid to ask. A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear, When pointing at the object dear. Jean de La Fontaine

• love him
• love
• him

There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see. David Herbert Lawrence

• love
• war
• wellness

For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's. David Foster Wallace