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"IQ's are a combination of eyes, and queues. Would you wait in line to see my goat show? Of course you wouldn't, because the line is invisible."
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"But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple."And, Sassenach," he whispered, "your face is my heart."
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"All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle. Animals have possibilities that are greater than that of a fir tree or a blade of grass. Still, though, for most animals, the pattern of instinct, the patterns of their lives, are very strong. Humanity has a far greater range of possibilities, especially the very young. Who will children grow up to be? Who will they marry, what will they believe, what will they create? Creation is a very powerful seed of possibility."
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"We have come to love darkness in the church rather than finding God in creation."
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"The enemy of my enemy is my friend, men said, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy."
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"So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again..."
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"Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful."
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"Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind."
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"Shall I tell you what sociology teaches us about the human race? I'll give it to you in a nutshell. Show me a man or woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call "society. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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"To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it."
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"Computers and mobile devices are becoming known for their inherent insecurities and the ability to damage the long term health of the users."
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"How can you stand touching her? my sister blurted, staring at our clasped hands. 'Doesn't that hurt?I seized on the change of topic. 'These gloves are specialized rubber. They block the current.Gretchen's gaze traveled over Vlad, disbelief still stamped on her features. 'Yeah, but how do you two do anything else, unless he has a special, currentrepellingglove for his-'Gretchen! my father cut her off.My cheeks felt hot. Don't say a word, I thought to Vlad, seeing his chest tremble with suppressed laughter.'He has a natural immunity, I gritted out."
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"Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing."
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"I wouldn't marry Giddon to save my life," Katsa said. "Not even to save yours.""Well." Raffin's eyes were full of laughter. "I'd leave that part out."
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"Shame is a powerful feeling. There is a tremendous difference between making a mistake and believing you are a mistake...If I don't see myself as being a mistake then it is I who must take responsibility and I am not ready to accept that."
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"His sixth year, it seemed to him, had lasted a remarkably long time and there were points at which he frankly wondered whether he would ever turn seven. But now it was the night before his birthday, and barring some cosmic disaster, the advent of some unexpected black hole into which the earth might be sucked, with the attendant reversal or suspension of time, in very few hours he would be waking up to a world in which he was numbered among the seven-year-olds."
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"Each daily improvement should have a means by which it can be measured so you can see and feel yourself growing."
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"When over the years someone has seen you at your worst, and knows you with all your strengths and flaws, yet commits him- or herself to you wholly, it is a consummate experience. To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us."
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"Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess."
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"God is universal," spluttered the priest.The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God.""And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit."Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls.""They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in."While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people."
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"Stop killing and wasting time. Get something done today."
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"We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken."
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"There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group."
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"I believe in times of adversity there's a line that is sometimes drawn, a line that separates your old life from your new. You cross the line, you'll never be the same."
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"Any impossibility turned into a possibility is magic."
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"None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience."
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"I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey."
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"Life and love are never what you think they are."
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"It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality."
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"Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings."
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"You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism."
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"I often wonder if my imagination is one of God's choicest gifts bestowed upon me to deliberately break me free from the frequent doldrums of my humanity."
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"Don't forgive people until they understand their mistakes."
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"To help get your creative juices flowing, you might look online at lists of the "best taglines ever." Their branding ideas are genius and may be just the catalyst you need to activate your awesome!"
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"Causing harm is never just a one-way street."
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"You know who you are and what you are capable of, because of your own personal history and the experiences you gained throughout that history."
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"No God, no messiah, no prophet can grant your wishes " it is only through your own efforts that you can make your wishes come true " it is only you who can grant your own wishes."
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"He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale."
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"The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves."
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"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."
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"I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it),..."
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"It is the gospel of the kingdom that makes the difference."
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"Take time to understand uncanny and bitter situations or else, you shall only end up creating yet another similar situation, situation after situation, time and again!"
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