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"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
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"I don't know why everyoneis still trying to find out whether heaven and hell exist.Why do we need more evidence?They exist here on this very Earth.Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasiounoverlooking the Damascene sightswith the wind carrying Qabbani'sdulcet words all around you.And hell is only four hours away in Aleppo where children's cries drown out the explosions of mortar bombsuntil they lose their voice,their families, and their limbs.Yes, hell certainly does existright now, at this moment,as I pen this poem. And all we're doingto extinguish this hellfireis sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing.Tell me: what exactly does that makeus? Are we any better than the gatekeepers of hell?"
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"It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake."
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"Even the world's greatest actor cannot fake an erection."
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"If you desire to be financially wealthy but don't know how to invest time, then you are just dreaming."
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"There are no free tickets in life, there is always some cost in one form or another."
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"Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men."
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"PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done.And it's our job to stop them."
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"It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet."
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"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."
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"In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing, the world lies waiting."
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"I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up."
Emotion
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Happiness
"Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good life."
Wellness
"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
Friendship
"I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me."
Leadership
"Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech."
Communication
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
Wisdom
"Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?"
Politics
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
Politics
"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."
Religion
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