To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.

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What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. — William James

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When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

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You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

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We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.

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The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. - Charles Spurgeon

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Don't be afraid to be yourself just because you're not like everybody else in class. If you want to dye your hair green and that's what makes you happy, then dye your hair green, no matter what other people might say about it. Not everybody is going to like you - that's the world we live in; that's reality.

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. ― Soren Kierkegaard

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