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"Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?"
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"It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God's principles in them."

"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."

"Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me.""People have been wrongly condemned before now.""Exactly; simply because I wasn't there.""I never thought of that."
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"Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong."


"What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka?" she asked."I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied."


"Mistresses, have you ever noticed that when we disagree with a male- I hesitate to say 'man'- or find ourselves in a position over males, the first comment they make is always about our reputations or our monthlies?"


"I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it."She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down."


"She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday."


"I'm sorry, I didn't mean--""To speak of it?" asked the K'mir. Diane nodded. "You have to, just to bleed off the poison from the memory."


"Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say."
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