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"Our film industry, must cease portraying us as a nation of decayed values, fallen moralities and juju-obsessed people."
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"If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off."
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"The problem with a lot of people is that they procrastinate as if tomorrow doesn't have some tasks of its own."
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"Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own moral judgment (the dog) is driven by our own moral reasoning (the tail). The second illusion can be called the wag-theother-dog's-tail illusion: In a moral argument, we expect the successful rebuttal of an opponent's arguments to change the opponent's mind. Such a belief is like thinking that forcing a dog's tail to wag by moving it with your hand will make the dog happy."
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"The only thing I've loved is nothing at all. The only thing I've desired is what I couldn't even imagine. All I asked of life is that it go on by without my feeling it. All I demanded of love is that it never stop being a distant dream."
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"Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong."
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"Awaken your mind from the deep sleep of ancient mysticism and make it self-conscious - power will come, glory will come, goodness will come and everything that is excellent will come."
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"I accept you as you are, and I will always hold you close in my heart. I will walk beside you forever."
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"I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted."
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"Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.""
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"But he drank a lot. When love dies, he told me, there are no survivors."
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"You should be aware that anywhere that a ground rod is installed, that there may be AC voltage/current/frequency in the vicinity of it."
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"Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work."
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"It was killing him, seeing her this way. She was not meant to be uncertain, timid or fearful; the woman he knew exuded confidence so fiercely it might as well be a damn spiritual aura. He needed to fix this. "It's time to adjust your perspective. You want to show the politicians on Earth they don't rule the galaxy? Well, let's show them."
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"The way you walk, talk, stand, and carry yourself sends messages to others that can attract or repel, encourage or discourage, and impress or depress."
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"It seems to us that one of the deepest divisions between the Russians and the Americans or British, is in their feeling toward their governments. The Russians are taught, and trained, and encouraged to believe that their government is good, that every part of it is good, and that their job is to carry it forward, to back it up in all ways. On the other hand, the deep emotional feeling among Americans and British is that all government is somehow dangerous, that there should be as little government as possible, that any increase in the power of government is bad, and that existing government must be watched constantly, watched and criticized to keep it sharp and on its toes."
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"I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on. I say great good will come of it. This is the true King of Narnia we've got here: a true King, coming back to true Narnia. And we beasts remember, even if Dwarfs forget, that Narnia was never right except when a son of Adam was King."
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"As we sail in the voyage of life,the love and joy we shared count more than anything else.Let them feel the rhythm of our heart,share them the music of our soul,for a meaningful, fulfilling moments of today,for a hopeful, promising and joyful tomorrow."
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"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."
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"One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process."
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"Tales of triumph are my favourite."
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"You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them - I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you."
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"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
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"If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president."
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"When the only exorcise you get is running for a bus, get more buses!"
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"True Mentors, don't make their mentees a clone of themselves."
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"The best jury of your peers that you'll ever find is well, you. Only you know what you're capable of and what you want to be."
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"In our dynamic age, the speed of motion is increasing."
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"Professor Rex Curry ... has been researching the link between Hitler's National Socialism and Edward Bellamy's 'socialistic' form of 'nationalism."
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"You're beautiful to me, Jamie, I said softly, at last. "So beautiful, you break my heart."
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"Are you able to remain humble and kind when things do not go the way you want or expect? Be kind when you are in pain; be kind even when your life seems to be falling apart around you. Be humble not only when you succeed but also when you fail. Kindness in word and action, and humble in thought and belief. It is important to not only say and do the 'right' thing, it is important to also think and believe it - which is being genuine in nature of peace embodiment."
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"It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody."
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"Sometimes LIFE is rough and tough. That's still NO excuse for you to be."
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"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?Doesn't that make life a story?"
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"I thought if I didnt take a break, I would do something even worse. Like yell or hang up the phone."
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"When you can't get what you want, get what you need."
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"The sensation that you experience in the body, is your spirit, but it's so attached, that it's hard to imagine, that the sensation can ever be separated from the physical body. In long hours of meditation, you can separate your sensation from the physical body."
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"If I have found my journey to be a maddening tangle of wandering 'rabbit-trails,' a labyrinth of incessantly circular passages to nowhere and back, and a plethora of assorted 'dead-ends' fraudulently disguised as paths of great promise, it can only be because I have mindlessly exchanged God's compass for mine. Therefore, it would appear that another exchange might be in order."
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"You can't take credit for your talents, but it matters that you use them. You can't really be blamed for your weaknesses, but it matters that you correct them. So pride and shame don't make a lot of sense, in the final analysis, but they weren't much fun anyway."
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"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
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