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Quotes by Author
"No" works just fine as a complete sentence. You don't have to explain yourself.I said no, then stopped talking."
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"All great and precious things are lonely."
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"It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through."
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"The only person standing between your dreams and making them a reality is YOU."
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"We are each a product of our biological endowments, culture, and personal history. Culture ideology and cultural events along with transmitted cultural practices influences each of us. We are each the product of our collective interchanges. Our county's domestic and interlinked international conflicts fuse us together. We are each a molecule in the helix of human consciousness joined in a physical world. We form a coil of connective tissue soldered together by cultural links."
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"You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off without the lot of you!"
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"Greatness can only be attained through time conversion."
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"Sons of suicides seldom do well. Characteristically, they find life lacking a certain zing. They tend to feel more rootless than most, even in a notoriously rootless nation. They are squeamishly incurious about the past and numbly certain about the future to this grisly extent: they suspect that they, too, will kill themselves."
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"Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you."
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"It is also aimed at experienced human rights activists who are looking for a handy collection of facts to use in any confrontations online " or in real life."
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"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
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"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."
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"A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so."
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"A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there."
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"We often hate others because we fail to understand them."
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"A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have."
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"A lie with confidence is more powerful than a truth without it."
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"It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance."
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"Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it."
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"Forget the beauty, comfort, love and enjoyment. You must to be enough tough on yourself to be strong on others."
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"The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven."
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"Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that."
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"We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed."
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"Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get."
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"Many a false step was made by standing still."
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"The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents."
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"Don't waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you."
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"Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat."
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"Life cannot deny you of what you desired when you are committed to your dreams."
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"Death is a common destination."
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"Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular."
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