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But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

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You become who you pretend to be.

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To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

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There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.

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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

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Be fruitful, and multiply.

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Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

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THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smart…

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The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

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Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.

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