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Quotes by Author
"You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want."
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"When we see goodness in everything and everyone, we become good."
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"I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation."
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"Understanding of each other is the beginning of peace."
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"Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?' Archer asked. 'Because that's what you very nearly did."
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"Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old."
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"It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives."
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"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
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"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall."
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"Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon."
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"Will I someday pass into history having passed by God and therefore forfeited the opportunity to change my world and reap the blessing of being able to do so because I saw myself as inadequate to achieve either? And how long will it take me to realize that if I doggedly refuse to pass by God, my inadequacy is instantly irrelevant and I have in actuality begun to achieve these very things."
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"It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened. In generations past there was far less talk about 'compatibility' and finding the ideal soul mate. Today we are looking for someone who accepts us as we are and fulfills our desires, and this creates an unrealistic set of expectations that frustrates both the searchers and the searched for."
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"I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely."
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"It is love's nature to be expressed."
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"In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption."
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"The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it."
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"I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs."
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"Refuse anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next with pre-judgement."
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"The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition."
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"Go to the root of the problems of people and discover ways to save them."
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"I admire the way the Bible defies anybody who wants to nail it on a preferred meaning. There are so many ways to interpret the Bible as there are different opinions about what a certain passage or verse really means. So anybody can go there and read a meaning into (eigesis) whatever passage or verse he wants to suit his inclinations. Proof that the Bible is inspired? It caters for all sorts of people and views."
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"Goals doesn't leave you like men, goals wait, they wait for their achievers."
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"Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant."
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"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."
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"We shouldn't use God for our purpose alone but also be instruments of the extension of His Kingdom."
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"You may have an overall target to achieve with each prospect, but if you are going to have an ideal outcome for each call, should you not also have a tolerable outcome to fall back on? Something you are willing to put up with if things don't go completely to plan, but something that still moves things forward ever so slightly?"
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"It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'."
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"Your intensity increases your productivity."
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"The only real failure in life is one not learned from."
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"We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world."
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"If you submit to your gift, people will seek and invite you, you will get well paid because you have perfected your gift."
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"Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine."
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"To solve a problem, change your awareness, perception, and consciousness about the problem."
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"If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone."
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"So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is. But right now I'm here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do."
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"Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be."
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"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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"Attachment is the source of pain, but detachment is the source of joy."
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