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"If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action."

"When an artist friend of mine explained she was working her way up the creative ladder, I asked if she would kindly paint the front of my house on the way up."


"There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin."

"Never overestimate the strength of the torchbearer's arm, for even the strongest arms grow weary."

"Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the powerful few."

"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

"A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big."

"A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge and it ain't worth it."

"We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another."

"She kept the wish to herself, as she should have, and simply blew out the candle.I clapped and whistled and then dove into my own cupcake, dying to know how my creations tasted. And seeing as I'd done the hard work-frosting and decorating-I felt like I could take credit and call them my creations. All Cassie had done was get the ingredients, come up with the recipe, and do all the measuring and mixing."

"Your inner joy will journey alongside you - supported within the company of your Soul."

"The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone."

"Men can go to hell! I'll meet them there."

"They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people."


"In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness."

"I flow like a butter in the nailed pan I stole. I also kept the nail, to polish and use as a means of teleportation."

"From victory we learn little, from defeat - everything."


"Don't just remain that accidental product."

"Life has a way of forcing us to grow in one way or another, constantly. We sometimes try to stem the growth by being unbending..yet, look what happens to the branches of a tree, if they refuse to bend to whims of the weather? They snap and break...If one starts to learn to be flexible and not resist life.... one steps into the kind of Mastery that is able to walk on the waters of time."

"I can draw you a diagram. Hint: I'm slot B, and you're tab A."

"Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline."

"Video just accesses international information so much more readily."

"Success is just around the corner from difficulty."

"Jesus embraced His not enough ... He gives thanks ... and there is more than enough. More than enough. Eucharisteo always precedes the miracle. And who doesn't need a miracle like that everyday? Thanksgiving makes time. The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving. Thanksgiving creates abundance; and he miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks - ...it's giving thanks to God for this moment that multiplies the moments, time made enough. I am thank-full. I am time-full."

"Moments later, Sona Kilroy, heading for the open doorway, stepped over the sergeant's body. With an old auto-rifle in his left hand and his favorite sword in the other, and the sharp melodic din of bolts and bullets ringing in his ears, 'the Hammer' grinned an evil grin to himself, well pleased. He wished he could've seen the look on the face of Indomitable's captain when he realized the tables had just been turned on him! The thought amused him. It was bloody hilarious. He cackled, reveling in this complete reversal of fortune. Then he stalked onward with conviction, a grim smile on his lips " intent on taking the ship for himself."

"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."

"Being Wise & Being Smart are two different things anyone can be smart but those who master the art of knowing what to overlook in this journey called life deserves to be called Wise."

"A responsible woman guides, controls (albeit subtly), directs with superior knowledge that is higher than that of her contemporaries!"

"Light-years away, another starship was also experiencing problems, though perhaps not as severe. The I.S.S. Antares was not a new ship either. Many older ships in the imperial space fleet reaching retirement age were being refitted with more modern equipment to extend their useful lives. Thus, technologically at least, Antares was currently one of the most advanced ships of the Imperial Space Fleet. Unfortunately, she was now also one of the most troubled. This is what the Phoenix refitting program had done to the Antares."


"You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it."

"Well, at the risk of sounding a bit harsh, I think we can safely say that your recent successes could have just as easily been achieved by a mute monkey in a tiny business suit, holding up a written explanation of whatever it was the monkey was attempting to sell."

"She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys to smooth an edge or two."
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