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"The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing."
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"I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head."
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"If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty."
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"From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning."
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"Western governments use thermal heating standards for public protection from the damaging effects of wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation. Eastern governments use biological standards that are much lower due to the extensive long term radiation damage that has been seen to occur in humans at the western thermal heating standard."
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"And things were back to normal except we were just friends."
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"It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be."
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"If you can't open it, it's not your door. So, don't force it."
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"There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst."
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"If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious."
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"Enjoy the contented silence."
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"To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away."
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"Emotional intelligence is making a huge mistake, but learning from it, forgiving yourself, and setting new and higher related-standards below which you will never operate."
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"It's all about 'Priorities'. There's No Such Thing as 'Busy'."
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"Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question."
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"When I got home, my roof was gone. Overnight the weight of the snow became too much to carry. What tipped the scale? Think about it: there must have been a final snowflake that did it, a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a milligram that made all the difference."
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"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature."
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"But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes."
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"To be fruitful and productive is to invest in time."
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"Invest your capital of love to get the best dividend of a beautiful life filled with happiness."
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"The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe."
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"If God the Father and God the Son use light, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom to function on the earth, it means that is the greatest power in existence."
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"I write for ghosts, the ghosts I can't see but I know stick around. Some I know are good. Others I know are bad. The first bring me nostalgic comfort while the latter instill unease."
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"In India everything has a use and a value."
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"Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against."
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"A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one."
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"If you want to get wealth, focus on wealth. If you want happiness, focus on happiness."
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"For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time."
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"I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course."
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"It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle."
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"If you can't make ends meet, meet them in the middle instead."
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"Brent never trusted anyone who couldn't look him in the eye. It was a sign of dishonesty."
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"Everyone's face is odd, because we only get one."
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"In life we all should learn to forgive but never forget. Best way to learn from our mistakes."
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"Every adversity brings new experiences and new lessons."
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