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• “Forgiveness is not the ultimate act of virtue; forgiveness is the ultimate act of denial and injustice.”
• “The purpose of life is the genetic and memetic propagation of the self.”
• “Admit to what you believe, not to what you think you ought to believe or want to believe.”
• “If hate were an emotion as pleasant as love, people would be bound to experience it and abuse it just as often.”
• “Man is man’s own greatest mystery.”
• “The more I learn, the more convinced I am of my own ignorance.”
• “By creating more life, we are ultimately creating more death; thus, our foremost goal should not be the creation of life, but the sustenance and amelioration of already-existent life.”
• “Life and death are mutually dependent processes simultaneously operating in harmony.”
• “To live is to die; to die is to live.”
• “Face adversity with courage.”
• “It is usually the trivial things that are both the most important and the most frequently overlooked.”
• “To be grateful is either an indication that one has received something one does not deserve or that one has satisfied oneself with one’s present condition—the ultimate obstruction to human advancement.”
• “Pain is mankind’s greatest teacher.”
• “Love is the most potent opiate known to man.”
• “Everyday the heavens become more obscure, their mysterious radiance dimmed by the multitude of glaring copper filaments—and so is man’s enlightenment eroding the beauty of the world.”
• “That which I have not forgotten I shall never forgive; that which I have forgotten I shall one day remember.”
• “Our visages may fade, our skin may wither, but words shall immortalize us both.”
• “There is nothing too sacred to obviate a rational explanation.”
• “The love we have for the world is but an overflow of the love we have for ourselves.”
• “Hatred is the ultimate expression of impotence.”
• “The most painful feeling is losing forever an old familiarity and realizing that one has savored so terribly briefly of its sweetness.”
• “The past is gone, the present is with us, and the future has yet to be created.”
• “A helping hand is forthcoming only when one is considered worth helping.”
• “Our current state of existence is a means to the life of our genes, not of ourselves.”
• “I don’t believe in forgiveness; I believe in redemption.”
• “It always amuses me when people claim that money is unimportant. Please, try living below the poverty level for a year; then we’ll talk.”

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