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Quotes by Author
"You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life.After they were gone?That was all you thought about.Day and night."
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"There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them."
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"I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them cats."
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"The biggest surprise that I had during my time in high altitude astronomy was being prevented from arranging a free Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) onsite evaluation to assist with bringing the observatory into OSHA compliance by the upper management team that I reported to."
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"The process of attentive listening makes the other person feel important, valued, and heard. For Nick, listening was, and still is, love. I've never forgotten that precious moment-and the lesson!"
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"Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there."
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"These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?"
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"The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk."
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"What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others - status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]"
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"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out."
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"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless."
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"I am a shark. A shark who dreamed he was a man."
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"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
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"Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man."
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"A 'caring' judgment is still a judgment. And any form of judgment creates blocks and stagnation."
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"An emotion is the result of a brain's strategy to manifest a heart's decision."
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"Sometimes your pledges become your problems."
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"She blew out a breath between gritted teeth. "Sometimes I really want to-a frustrated sound-"bite you! He froze. "I might let you. "I won't do it if you'd enjoy it."
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"Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either."
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"The bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face. . . . What they abominate about 'the West,' to put it in a phrase, is not what Western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state. Loose talk about chickens coming home to roost is the moral equivalent of the hateful garbage emitted by Falwell and Robertson."
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"Brethren, you won't believe what I discovered. I found out that in every place, people listened to the message (the shift our churches need) with full attention and total bewilderment. The question that I kept on hearing was: "why are other Christian ministers not doing the same thing?"
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"You haven't heard a damn word I've said. See, this is why I can't stand your kinds. You light your candles and mumble your latin spells and pray to a god who isn't there, doesn't care, or is just plain crazy or cruel or both. The world burns and you praise the asshole who either set it or let it."
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"People addicted with technology.Technology has indulged mankind. Beware of technology dependency!"
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"Boredom is a kind reminder that we've shadowed our creativity."
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"Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay."
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"It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school."
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"The more you read the gospel, the more you understand God."
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"Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too."
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"We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us."
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"While it's five in the morning here, it's also five in the evening somewhere in China-proving that incompatible truths make perfect sense when seen with global perspective."
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"Every one needs someone and there is someone for everyone."
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"Spirituality is the strength of being."
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