"Half my life is an act of revision."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Life, Cleansed, Conscience, Emerges

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"I am born to win."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Abundance, Generosity, Receiving

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."

Business, Actor, Pretty, Skin

"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."

Reason,

"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."

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"Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is."

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"It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them."

Social, Sympathy, Perception, Judgment, Humanity

"Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true."

Rumors, Truth, Deception, Sensationalism

"This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice people-because, surely, Wally was nice-would say a host of critical things about someone to whom they would then be perfectly pleasant. At. St. Cloud's, criticism was plainer-and harder, if not impossible, to conceal."

Hypocrisy, Politeness, Criticism, Reality

"Life is serious but art is fun!"

Playfulness, Life, Art, Joy, Creativity

"What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid, they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress-lie to the people and violate the people's constitution!"

Hypocrisy, Morality, Politics, Power

"All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone, let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down."

Tolerance, Acceptance, Judgment, Equality