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Thank God for books and music...

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

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Now I understand that one of ...

Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

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Just leave me alone. I'm not ...

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

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Intelligence is one of the gr...

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.

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I put Algernon's body in a ch...

I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.

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How can I make him understand...

How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.

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The answer can't be found in ...

The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself

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Here look at me. I'm Charlie,...

Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone.

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Who's to say that my light is...

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

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Even in the world of make-bel...

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.

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Even a feeble-minded man want...

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan

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I can't help but admire the s...

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less - filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.

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Even in the world of make-bel...

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind of picture is a lie. Things are forced to fit because the writer or the director or somebody wanted something in that didn't belong. And it doesn't feel right

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I'm not close to him." He loo...

I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov or Watson, but he's doing something important and I respect his dedication - maybe even more because he's just an ordinary man trying to do a great man's work, while the great men are all busy making bombs.

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Because I want to see. I've g...

Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

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Only a short time ago, I lear...

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

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I can't afford to spend my ti...

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

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I love the fact that 'Flowers...

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

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My father was in the paper re...

My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling.

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I thought: 'My education is d...

I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?'

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....