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"I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book."
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Frank McCourt
"I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book."
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"Time travel occurs in humans collective subconscious."
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Toba Beta
"Time travel occurs in humans collective subconscious."
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"If a person thinks continually about the purity and holiness of God, then that holiness will begin to show itself in that person's life."
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Sunday Adelaja
"If a person thinks continually about the purity and holiness of God, then that holiness will begin to show itself in that person's life."
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"The only approval that's worth seeking is that of your positive inner-self."
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Edmond Mbiaka
"The only approval that's worth seeking is that of your positive inner-self."
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"The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve."
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Simon Sinek
"The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve."
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"Obsession is the evil genie who turns pleasure into pain."
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Marty Rubin
"Obsession is the evil genie who turns pleasure into pain."
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"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."
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"My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms."
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Fred Saberhagen
"My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms."
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"People's fates are simplified by their names."
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Elias Canetti
"People's fates are simplified by their names."
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"I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness."
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Harold Brodkey
"I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness."
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"What I become is the grace of belief."
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Lailah Gifty Akita
"What I become is the grace of belief."
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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
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Willa Cather
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
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"I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal."
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Elisabeth Elliot
"I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal."
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"This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you."
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Sophie Kinsella
"This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you."
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"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
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Elizabeth Moon
"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
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"A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged."
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Debasish Mridha
"A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged."
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"Love is the strength of the human heart."
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Lailah Gifty Akita
"Love is the strength of the human heart."
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"I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations."
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Walter Lord
"I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations."
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"Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?"
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William Dean Howells
"Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?"
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"Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent."
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Anthony Trollope
"Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent."
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"I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet."
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R. A. Salvatore
"I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet."
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"You can leverage time by using it wisely and purposefully."
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Mensah Oteh
"You can leverage time by using it wisely and purposefully."
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"All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches - that's what will be left at the end of it all."
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Maggie Stiefvater
"All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches - that's what will be left at the end of it all."
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"And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living."
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Toni Cade Bambara
"And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living."
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"If we can benchmark nature on how it operates, then we never have to worry about how, and when God takes care of us."
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Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
"If we can benchmark nature on how it operates, then we never have to worry about how, and when God takes care of us."
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"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."
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Robert Cormier
"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."
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"It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department."
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Robert Shea
"It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department."
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"A smile is the best compliment of love for a friend and for a stranger."
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Debasish Mridha
"A smile is the best compliment of love for a friend and for a stranger."
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"Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait."
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Toba Beta
"Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait."
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"Life is a book. We are writing the stories of our lives."
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Lailah Gifty Akita
"Life is a book. We are writing the stories of our lives."
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"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous."
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John Sergeant Wise
"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous."
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"One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions."
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Robert Shea
"One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions."
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"I went down to Safeways, and I bought her a packet of best ground sirloin."
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Neil Gaiman
"I went down to Safeways, and I bought her a packet of best ground sirloin."
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"Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business."
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Zig Ziglar
"Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business."
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"Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is."
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David Guterson
"Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is."
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"When God calls a man He entrust something to him."
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Sunday Adelaja
"When God calls a man He entrust something to him."
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"We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore."
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Larry Wall
"We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore."
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"Stress does not come from problems. It originates from fear which comes from the anticipation of problems."
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Debasish Mridha
"Stress does not come from problems. It originates from fear which comes from the anticipation of problems."
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"I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say."
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Sarah Zettel
"I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say."
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"There are so many challenges, but the first, closest and biggest challenge is our mindset!"
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"There are so many challenges, but the first, closest and biggest challenge is our mindset!"
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"Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets."
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Sara Paretsky
"Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets."
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"For religion to truly become an aid to humanity as a whole, every human being must make sincere efforts to break down the dogmatic barriers among different religions constructed by the pathologically ill and dangerous fundamentalists."
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Abhijit Naskar
"For religion to truly become an aid to humanity as a whole, every human being must make sincere efforts to break down the dogmatic barriers among different religions constructed by the pathologically ill and dangerous fundamentalists."
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"There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy."
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Ken Kesey
"There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy."
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"Can't anyone ever start a fight without all the posturing and cheesy Bond-villain threats? It's not that hard. Here, let me demonstrate." And he smashed a fist into Colin's nose."
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Julie Kagawa
"Can't anyone ever start a fight without all the posturing and cheesy Bond-villain threats? It's not that hard. Here, let me demonstrate." And he smashed a fist into Colin's nose."
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"When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville."
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Flannery O'Connor
"When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville."
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"I'd learned that some things are best kept secret."
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Nicholas Sparks
"I'd learned that some things are best kept secret."
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"The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line."
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Daniel Yergin
"The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line."
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"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
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Rebecca West
"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
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"If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence."
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Darren L. Johnson
"If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence."
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