"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."

Reality, Events, Control, Truth, Life

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"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."

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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds."

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"No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."

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"I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."

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"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."

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"The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well."

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"God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them."

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"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

Identity

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

Inspirational

"I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me."

Relationship

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

Freedom

"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day."

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