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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
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Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion
