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"Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?"
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"It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God's principles in them."

"To sit down means to calm down without rush and fuss, stop and reflect, analyze all pros and cons, count all possible merits and faults."

"Visible obstacles shine a light on hidden opportunities."

"Understanding is to knowledge what the flesh is to the body. Insight is to wisdom what life is to the soul."

"God tells you where to look, love tells you what to see."

"Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition."

"By understanding the basic impediments to forgiveness, the repercussions of failing to forgive and the fruits of forgiveness, this will lead you gently to the shoreline of a distinct new and more powerful YOU."

"For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU."

"If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all."
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"Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other."

"Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one."

"Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah."

"Your Temporary Santa, "He says presents aren't important, but I think they are- not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say 'I understand you."

"My eyes are open and I'm not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside."

"Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke."

"I wish she could see how it hits him. The look on his face, his life caving in. Because then maybe she'd realize, if only for a split second, that even though the world doesn't matter to her, she matters to the world."
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