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Quotes by Author
"I love what Jacksonville taught me and where it led me. The good, the bad and the indifferent all helped shape me. I may not live there anymore but it lives inside me. It is and will always be my foundation."
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"Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses."
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"We all get knock down in life. Encouragement lifted our spirit."
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"Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn't analyze at first and didn't fully grasp (partly because I was far from my family in Washington, who had a very grueling day) until the day itself was nearly over. I am only slightly embarrassed to tell you that this was a feeling of exhilaration. Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that."
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"But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation."
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"Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to."
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"It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth."
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"Wit smiled. "All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names."
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"Living in God's righteousness and conducting your work according to God's golden principles will undoubtedly lead any born again Christian to incredible success."
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"Life demands growth."
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"I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition."
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"I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this -- I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense."
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"Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society."
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"Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good."
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"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
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"There is no one that cannot make an impact in this world."
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"The origin behind myths and religion is human terror of annihilation. Human societies invented mythology and religion in order to militate against people's fear of living a mortal life. People fear time as a destroyer of human happiness, human beings, and human societies."
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"It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition."
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"Good fathers, and by that I mean real fathers who are there, have the ability to change almost every social problem we now find ourselves facing. I'd be assumptive enough to say that there isn't a single type of crime or a single problem so big that it couldn't be fixed or wiped out if fathers would just step up."
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"It is not important what others think about you, it is important what you think about yourself."
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"If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn't yet see. For once she became his wife, she would be his forever. And, no matter how much freedom Po gave her, she would always know that it was a gift. Her freedom would be not be her own; it would be Po's to give or to withhold. That he never would withhold it made no difference. If it did not come from her, it was not really hers."
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"Our fellowship with God cannot be established when we don't recognize His people."
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"Jim said he believed it was spirits, but I says: no, spirits wouldn't say "dern the dern fog"."
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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
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"To better handle grief, become the passenger, not the driver."
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"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."
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"The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic an took only two words to label: Shit. Happens."
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"There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets."
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"There is nothing worse than being broke and having your woman leave you. Nothing to drink, no job,just the walls, sitting there staring at the walls and thinking. That's how women got back at you, but it hurt and weakened them too. Or so I like to believe."
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"He wasn't sure he liked everything that was happening, but a lot of it was "cultural," apparently, and you couldn't object to that, so he didn't. "Cultural" sort of solved problems by explaining that they weren't really there."
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"Authenticity respects the ebb and flow between positive and negative. The people who really know you will understand that you are not always going to be in a happy place and an occasional bad mood is acceptable."
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"It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness."
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"Envy suggests inferiority."
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