Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

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The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

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Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

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The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

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It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

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It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

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