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!["Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts."](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
"Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts."
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"Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way."
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"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
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"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is."
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"We should be authentic: the 'real deal'. Neither a clone nor mimic be."
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"Personal Responsibility is the state of being the person who caused something to happen."
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"Preserve the spirit of a 'lost' age, when time moved slower."
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"I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?"
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"Some don't want to be happy, inasmuch as they undergo happiness merely as languor and yawning. They are dissatisfied with a bland and vacuous state of glee and, instead, prefer to keep on running like raging bulls through the whims and quirks of life. In reality, their dissatisfaction is their contentment. ['Happiness blowing in the wind']"
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"Act as if you are the hero of the movie we call life."
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"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it."
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"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."
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"You attain happiness not by gaining, but by giving."
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"It is the tale, not he who tells it."
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"Also, I'm not going to bedevastated or anything either way. I'm not that kind of person. I just think if you don't say thehonest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I- she says,but then I hold up my finger, because I need to hear the thing she just said, and she talks toofast for me to keep up. I keep holding up my hand, thinking if you don't say the honest thing, itnever becomes true."
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"The house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah..."
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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
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"To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense."
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"I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them."
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"Time is not rigid. It is destructible. It melts away before you know it."
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"The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two."
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"The old resists the new one.'Change hurts' is the reason."
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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."
Road,
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"If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters."
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"I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking."
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"Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over."
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"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'"
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"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."
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"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
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"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."
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"Dear Lord please show me what really matters so that I may be able to determine what is distraction and God's direction in my life."
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"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
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"My writings are the window of my soul through which you can see me, feel me, and understand me."
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