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"The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis -- especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he finds his compassion because he remembers he is the exception in being able to see beyond the immediate -- and foreboding -- horizon."
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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."
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Personal Development

"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."
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Personal Development

"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."
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Personal Development

"Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble."
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Personal Development

"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."
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Personal Development

"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
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Personal Development

"Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom."
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Personal Development

"Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance."
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Personal Development

"Dr. Paul Ekman is a great guy... studying micro-expressions... gestures... and many other facial expression... body movements...."
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Personal Development

"To waste one hour is a proof that you lack understanding of life."
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"The truth is that most writers are needy."
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"She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash."
Life

"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents."
Writing

"Time, Eddie had decided during this period, was in large part created by external events. When a lot of interesting shit was happening, time seemed to go by fast. If you got stuck with nothing but the usual boring shit, it slowed down. And when everything stopped happening, time apparently quit altogether. Just packed up and went to Coney Island. Weird but true."
Perception

"Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours."
Marriage

"Some werewolves are hairy on the inside."
Humor

"The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain."
Justice

"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."
Fear

"Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug."
Love

"And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not queasiness or fear that he would suddenly appear before us, a green and gibbering banshee whose purpose was to drive us back the way we had come before we could disturb his- its- peace,but a sudden and unexpected wash of pity that he should be so alone and so defenceless in the dark that was now coming over our side of the world."
Life
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