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"For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness."

"You have the legs and other also have it; they have the brain and you have it! Stop thinking you can't transact the business that others can. If you do, you are raising your inflation rate!"

"Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact."

"The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it."

"You are surrounded by endless possibilities. Your potential being the sum of your beliefs."

"You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine."

"God in his infinite wisdom has deposited in everything the potential for growth and multiplication."

"Every individual can reach their greatest potential with enough encouragement."
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"I can't destroy things so beautiful.""Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something."

"How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts."

"The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible."

"You're not actually falling for him, are you?" he asks her one day, on one of the rare occasions he can get her alone."I'll pretend you didn't just ask that," she tells him in disgust. But Connor has reasons to wonder."On that first night here, he offered you his blanket, and you accepted it," he points out."Only because I knew it would make him cold.""And when he offers you his food, you take it.""Because it means he goes hungry."It's coolly logical. Connor finds it amazing that she can put her emotions aside and be as calculating as Roland, beating him at his own game. Another reason for Connor to admire her."

"Mary believes she was put on earth to bring an end to the living world. Both Nick and Mikey just stared at her."What do you mean end? asked Mikey."End means end. Complete and total destruction. She wants to kill everyone and everything. She wants to bring down every building, burn every forest, empty every ocean of life. She wants to turn the earth into a dead planet ."

"Those eyes of his just look up at me, pupils dilated in the diffused lights of the room. Wide, black pools, seeking out galaxies."

"Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more you lie around doing nothing, the more you want to lie around doing nothing. Your limbs and your mind feel so heavy that it becomes a major effort just to lift your arm to channel surf."
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