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Quotes by Author
"When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious."
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"I must have killed a lot of cows in a past life for Karma to hate me this much."
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"When our beliefs are false we can justify anything to prove our beliefs."
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"Some people quit when victory is around the corner."
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"The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original."
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"People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.But if that's true, why do they always find us?"
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"Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend."
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"Strive to be a proactive participant rather than a passive procrastinator."
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"Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much."
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"I thought about him everyday until then. I started having these conversations with him in my head that you have when you meet someone you sense is going to be important in your life."
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"It is not a case of finding the meaning for the moments, but giving the moments meaning."
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"Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law."
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"You have the right to chose your destiny, otherwise you will be left to live someone else's idea of what your life should be."
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"The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you."
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"I've seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe dinna make such good matches with those who can."
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"One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer."
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"Mediocracy is not an option, it s a temptation."
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"When a person exudes passion, it is evident that they love what they are doing. Their passion projects an aura of confidence and decisiveness."
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"But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending."
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"Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to."
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"Don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?.."
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"The power of love can spread magic to the world like nothing else."
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"In case nobody has told you," she said, "this is the United States of America, where nobody has a right to rely on anybody else--where everybody learns to make his or her own way."
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"So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday."
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"I heard the car door shut and then Fabian's voice. 'You won't believe what I found around the edge of your property,' the ghost announced. 'A cave with prehistoric painting inside it!' I rolled my eyes. That was the best tactic Fabian could come up with? This was a vampire he was trying to stall, not a paleontologist."
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"Sin is incompatible with the glory, beauty and holiness of God."
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"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."
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"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."
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"Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on."
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"If your vision is bigger than you are, look for partners who are bigger than your vision."
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"Don't be afraid to be weird for being wise."
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"This is your war now.' I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have?'Some war,' he said dismissively. 'What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Graze, with a predetermined winner."
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"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
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"I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral-these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, "I loved him. We all loved him so much. I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this strange word, love, could be used. I vowed then and there that I would never hesitate to speak up to the people I loved. They deserved to know they gave meaning to my life. They deserved to know I thought the world of them."
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"It's not fair!" (Ryssa)Because life was ever about fairness.Oh, to be as naive as his sister."
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"An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else."
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"The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe."
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"The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older-intelligence and good manners."
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