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"We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us?"
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"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"
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Personal Development

"The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction."
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Personal Development

"Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It's pouring out, it keeps diminishing."
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Personal Development

"You never know what people have endured to get where they are."
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Personal Development

"Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?"
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"Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life."
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Personal Development

"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."
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Personal Development

"What you are seeking is yourself."
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Personal Development

"Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world."
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"The world is full of vanities."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
Creativity

"It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me."
Growth

"Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket."
Integrity

"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job."
Research

"I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from."
Reflection

"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."
Politics

"In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it."
Crime

"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."
Writing

"Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble."
Knowledge

"A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind."
Mortality
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