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Quotes by Author
"Sometimes, challenging a person to do their best is the most kind and compassionate thing you can do for them."
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"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
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"Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator."
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"In life, when one gets to the point of a deeper sense of understanding about himself and his purpose, he least explains himself much to people who fail to understand him and his purpose. That must not be interpreted as neither pride nor an uncaring attitude but a great respect for purposefulness."
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"We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God's plans for our lives...then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal at last."
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"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder."
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"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
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"On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class."
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"The impeccable watchmaker geared the noble self to suffer. The ineluctable part of being human is perpetual sorrow, grief, and misery. Suffering is part of living. Life begins joyously and regretfully ends in tragedy. The cold realities of the world triumphantly crush each one of us. Between birth and death is comedic conjugation, the haunting prelude to the end of the self."
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"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
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"Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline."
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"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
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"If we act in clean way, we shall clear the city of any dirt."
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"I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?"
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"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
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"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."
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"The principal advantage of narrative writing is that it assists us place our life experiences in a storytelling template. The act of strict examination forces us to select and organize our past. Narration provides an explanatory framework. Human beings often claim to understand events when they manage to formulate a coherent story or narrative explaining what factors caused a specific incident to occur. Stories assist the human mind to remember and make decisions based on informative stories. Narrative writing also prompts periods of intense reflection that leads to more writing that is ruminative. Contemplative actions call for us to track the conscious mind at work rendering an accounting of our weaknesses and our strengths, folly and wisdom."
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"Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts."
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"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing."
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"The more you care for others, while denying yourself, the more pleasure life supplies you."
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"There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way."
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"Her hair was full of lights."
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"Some of us read the Bible to quote God's words back to Him so as to get Him to make us live a discomfort free life. The reason is not far-fetched - God is not interested in your comfort. He is more interested in your purpose."
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"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means."
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"A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I believe that this would be a better world."
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"And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then."
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"Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right."
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"Shine as if you are the sun."
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"There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before."
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"Light was the first thing that came into existence, first in the order of creation."
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