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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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"You want to be popular? It's easy to do. Just be a total weirdo and love yourself for it."
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"Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment."
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"Over the years we seem to have become habituated, even addicted, to the notion of radical threat, threat of the kind that can make virtually anything seem expendable if it does not serve an immediate, desperate purpose of self-defense -- as defined by people often in too high a state of alarm to make sound judgments about what real safety would be or how it might be achieved, and who feel that their duty to the rest of us is to be very certain we share their alarm. Putting to one side the opportunities offered by the coercive power of fear, charity obliges me to assume that their alarm is genuine, though i grant that in doing so I again raise questions about the soundness of their judgment."
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"You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus."
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"It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie ofmy life must be really low-budget."
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"Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation."
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"My insanity begged for a distraction. (Eric)"
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"I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles."
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"I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive."
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"Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated."
Time,
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"When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others."
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"Whatever begun with planning, ends in a victory."
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"When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty."
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"The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations."
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"But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary."
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"No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations."
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"I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist."
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"When you put yourself in the customer's shoes and begin your dialog from there, an immediate connection develops that stems beyond basic commerce and encourages loyalty."
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"MUSIC. It's in my heart! It's in my mind! It's in my soul! Music has a way of taking control of my entire being, and I'm perfectly okay with that! Music is Life! Music is LOVE. Music makes life extra special! Music is a GIFT to the world!"
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"I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last."
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"I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy."
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"Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you."
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"We live in a world with an ever-growing population. Personal space these days is at a premium. Physically, we are practically tripping over our fellow man. Mentally and spiritually, the divide among us seems to widen."
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"Don't throw away another day! No more procrastinating! Only YOU can make it happen. So, UN-ASS the couch and make it happen!"
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"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself."
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"The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them."
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"I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."
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"Inferior and Superior life lives in the interior of a person."
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"Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destinies. They come, they go, but they are never forgotten. They come, they go, but even after they go... they're still here. They never really went anywhere."
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"I doubt you've ever been forced to nonstop bang a woman hyped up on the undead voodoo version of Spanish fly, have you?His chuckle was soft. 'Can't say that I have, Kitten.'Yeah, well, consider me an original.This time, when his lips brushed across my skin, it lasted more than a moment.'I always have."
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"One day employers will need to incentivize employees to actually work in an office. The office, in many ways, is obsolete. The office is more and more becoming a place for wasteful meetings and the work is actually being done at home. A Results-Only-Work-Environment (ROWE) is the path of future location-independent businesses."
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"This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love..."
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