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Quotes by Author
"Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently."
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"Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad."
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"A sudden damp coldness clung to the air around us. I lifted my head, eyeing the burnt orange sky. One drop of water fell, splashing off my cheek. Then the sky opened up, drenching us in cold rain within seconds.I sighed. "Really, it has to rain?"
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"If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out."
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"Don't stay because you think you can change him.You can't change him.Maybe work on changing yourself so you don't feel compelled to stay with menlike him in the first place."
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"When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize that what we've perceived as our pain is, at a deeper level, the pain inherent in human existence."
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"My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech."
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"If you can listen to yourself and obey yourself more, then you have increased your chances for attaining personal effectiveness."
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"In order to pick something up, you've got to put something down."
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"Roselyn adored the scent of sex, the wafting aroma of angel fontanels before they earn their halos."
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"I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision."
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"He loved me.Noah Hutchins had told me he loved me, and that had made the past week at school absolute hell."
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"It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day."
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"There is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go..."
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"Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility--I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED!--I'm starving, said the voice, and the night is--chilly for a man without clothes."
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"When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
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"Some people do everything, some do something, many do nothing - which is bad enough - but the worst of the lot are those who break down what others have built."
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"How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy?"
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"Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had plummeted into the water and smashed open. Engulfed in darkness, with only a scatter of stars above, the place felt like a bright secret " something ancient and precious."
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"If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them."
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"The details that are life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced. so many things become beautiful when you really look."
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"Delight in your sensuality, in the dance of your desires. Don't be ashamed of it."
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"War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact."
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"All theorieslike clichesshot to hell,all these small faceslooking upbeautiful and believing;I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believe but believe is agraveyard. we have narrowed it down tothe butcherknife and themockingbird wish usluck."
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"The most valuable lessons come not from teachers or textbooks, but from life experience."
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"May the four winds gather & disperse the strength to grant me with all the same blessings once bestowed upon the goddess of Olympus."
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"I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy."
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"As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution."
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