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Quotes by Author
"Everything that occurs to us in life is a resource, an experience that we can learn from and grow from."
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"Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus."
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"Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it."
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"If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!"
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"Meditation is not thinking about the image of a person of the past. It is more about focusing and channelizing the power of your emotions and imagination for fulfilling a bigger dream - the dream that will bring more life, energy peace, happiness and meaning to you and the society."
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"When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that rabble who are not experts in the Torah are accursed.' and as this pride increases, the 'subject' or study which confers such privilege will grow more and more complicated, the list of things forbidden will increase, till to get through a single day without supposed sin becomes like an elaborate step-dance, and this horrible network breeds self-righteousness in some and haunting anxiety in others."
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"If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate."
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"Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together."
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"It is important to abide in the word of God, pray ceaselessly, and fast regularly."
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"It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought - that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc - should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words."
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"It is your existential responsibility to raise your child as a human being above everything else " catholic, muslim, jew, asian, caucasian or whatever."
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"Life isn't about having, it's about experiencing."
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"Time is inexplicable because it moves " clicks away " at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present. Time has a necessary affinity with both heaven and the earthly reality. 'Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it is the soul of the world.' Plato said that time and heaven must be coexistent. Without time nothing can be created or generated in the universe, nor is anything intelligible without eternity. Time is no accident or affection, but the cause, power, and principle of the symmetry and order that confines all created beings, by which the animated nature of the universe moves."
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"There are boys lying awake, hating themselves. There are boys screwing for the right reasons and boys screwing for the wrong ones. There are boys sleeping on benches and under bridges, and luckier unlucky boys sleeping in shelters, which feel like safety but not like home. There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain. There are boys who clutch secrets at night in the same way they clutch denial in the day. There are boys who do not think of themselves at all when they dream. There are boys who will be woken in the night. There are boys who fall asleep with phones to their ears."
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"Everything I learn to say or do because I love."
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"Times of adversity are golden moments."
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"The resources of the human mind are unlimited."
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"Silken strings composing the harpsichord of life accommodate a score of emotional tidings. An orchestra of linked heartbeats strumming the melodious prose of our collective intones gives rise to sonnets of melancholy, producing an illimitable libretto stretching from the milky dawn of newborn's amaranth life to the speckled sunsets of gentle souls whom we cherish."
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"Your past and your pain will certainly impact you,but they don't have to define you. You get to write your own definition."
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"Money does not determine our worth."
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"Be aware of your breathing and breathe naturally. This will lead you into unity with the great flow of Life, your true nature."
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"You live by whatever rules you need to govern your life the best you think. Let's just try not to encroach."
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"When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight."
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"When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it."
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"The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong."
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"All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year."
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"The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get."
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"You must ask and meditate, after which the Holy Spirit will awaken your spirit to be joined with Him."
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"Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know."
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"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress."
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"Persistence is the pillar of success."
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"It is morally acceptable in life for one to make mistakes, it only enables you to go back to your drawing board and review your steps."
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"The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination."
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"Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator."
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"If you believe that discrimination exists, it will."
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"We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress."
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