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"Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine."
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"Merciful Heavens! but what do I care for the laws of nature and arithmetic, when, for some reason I dislike those laws and the fact that twice two makes four? Of course I cannot break through the wall by battering my head against it if I really have not the strength to knock it down, but I am not going to be reconciled to it simply because it is a stone wall and I have not the strength."
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"The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized."
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Personal Development

"The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy."
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Personal Development

"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads."
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Personal Development

"Life doesn't give you much, but for the ones who want to learn, life teaches them how to be strong before they start living their lives instead of just existing in this world."
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"You can never learn to be strong if you have not fallen and got up by yourself."
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Personal Development

"Let go of the heavy pains of yesterday and you will feel lighter to float on top with your values. Arise and float!"
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"There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live."
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"You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.This is but half the truth.You are also as strong as your strongest link.To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the oceanby the frailty of its foam.To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy."
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"I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them."
Love

"When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels."
Romantic

"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."
World

"Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside."
Categories

"One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt."
Strength

"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open."
Change

"I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement."
Woman

"Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning."
Truth
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