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"Why can't I do it? [Isabel] asked."Do what?"Just forget about everything. Just go somewhere and get smashed and pretend like there are no problems or consequences. I know why. Because there are still problems and consequences. And going and--and--partying doesn't make them go away. I feel like I'm the only sane person in the world. I don't get why this whole world runs on stupidity."
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!["Why can't I do it? [Isabel] asked."Do what?"Just forget about everything. Just go somewhere and get smashed and pretend like there are no problems or consequences. I know why. Because there are still problems and consequences. And going and--and--partying doesn't make them go away. I feel like I'm the only sane person in the world. I don't get why this whole world runs on stupidity."](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
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"These demands of life are so universal that either we like it or not, we are going to come across them one way or another. The response we give determines what our lives become."
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"Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent."
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"One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless."
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Personal Development
"This is your life and you have the right and responsibility to make good decisions for yourself."
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Personal Development
"We were not born the same, we are all not born with the same abilities and capabilities, but no matter what seed God has given to us, be it small or big, He expects a good returns from us in the end and we must endeavor to be good stewards and managers of our abilities and capabilities regardless of where we live and the challenges we face!"
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"Some victims do need to "blame" themselves and take responsibility."
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Personal Development
"The time is coming when each of us will have to give an account of our stewardship."
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Personal Development
"And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear that what happens on and near Earth at the beginning of the second cosmic year will depend very much on the scientific wisdom and the distinctly human sensitivity of mankind."
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"Joblessness gives you life ownership."
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"If you are straightforward, then others will have no choice but to be straightforward with you. If someone curses you, is he doing so at your responsibility? Is he doing so at God's responsibility? No. He curses you at his own responsibility. And if you were to curse back, then it will be at your responsibility."
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"As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air."
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Curiosity
"Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast."
Destiny
"It's rude to stare, but the great thing about staring at a sedated person is that they don't know you're doing it."
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"Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen. At night, Henrietta felt like magic, and at night, magic felt like it might be a terrible thing."
Mystery
"I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear."
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"Memories are like dreams. You remember how you got to the front of the classroom with no clothes on."
Memory
"So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality."
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"His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain."
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"A symptom," Brendan said, as if love were a disease only humans could catch. But there was something like fondness or respect in his voice. "You're both fools."
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