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"This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants."
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"So the way to control your life is this; every minute you live, maybe you are in church; ask yourself "why am I here? What product am I producing by being here?" I know most Christians just go to church like dummies."
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"Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity."
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"People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again."
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"Seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction."
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"The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did."
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"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults."
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"My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all."
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"The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the gulls that fished the foaming water close to shore. Now that he felt so free, it came to him that the corner of England, which up till now had been his whole universe, was in fact only a scrap of a boundless realm."
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"Happiness comes easier when I'm thinking of you."
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"He had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102."
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"If the only thing keeping your partner in relationship with you is your money, then be prepared to lose that person to someone else with more money than you."
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"I knew the eyes. I didn't know the Kraut, but yeah, I sure knew that look. I see it when I look in the mirror, even now. If you stay too long in the way, it's like your eyes try to get away, like they're sinking down, trying to hide, wary little animals crawling into the cave of your eye socket."
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"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."
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"Foreboding, and an all too familiar lack of control, roiled in my gut. My opponent might be hungry for a win, but I was famished. Something in my life would be a victory. Sorry Shark, I wasn't going down tonight. No chance. - Jason Ayers."
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"I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world - the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life."
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"By the way, you have a fine ass. Sir."
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"If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now."
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"Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts."
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"I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony."
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"Forgive and set your self free. When we forgive, we heal our own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for our heart."
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"There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent."
Life,
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"Since the beginning of time, the ignorant have always screamed the loudest...They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus."
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"The nature of yearning is urgent so as to guarantee evolution, change."
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"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."
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"There's no such thing as writer's block, so long as you've had plenty of time to think about what you want to write."
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"And what do you believe?A slow smile spread over his face. "I believe in you. You are my new beginning."
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"Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength."
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"The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles."
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"Will you do me a favor?" Declan asked. If he looked at her with those dark, intoxicating eyes, she was likely to do anything he asked. "Maybe." "Any more dreams you have, no matter how small, will you tell me about them?" "Even the ones that star you?" The almost flirty quiestion slipped out before she could stop herself. A slow grin spread across his fallen-angel face. The man just looked as if he wanted to do wicked things -- and she'd let him. "Especially those."
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"If we view ourselves to achieve a great life and DESIRE to fulfill our visions then we will do nothing but act accordingly regardless of the setbacks we occur on the journey. "I am a unique individual who is on the journey for greatness and things will get in my way but I will figure out away around them or just go right through them with the conviction of my vision.""
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"A [national] flag has no real significance for peaceful uses."
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"The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point, to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence."
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"My way is the way of silent revolution, revolution to raise the human consciousness through positive vibrations."
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"Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true."
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"God has given you grace. Maybe you should give yourself some too."
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"If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain."
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"There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me."
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