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Quotes by Author
"Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline."
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"In order to grow, you must learn to let go and strive toward something greater."
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"There are only do and don't, can or can't is just an excuse."
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"Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you."
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"I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful."
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"Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler."
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"Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?"
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"Find out your talents and gifting and invest your whole time into perfecting them and becoming the best of yourself."
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"The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell."
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"There was no mistaking what the feeling of fullness in his heart meant. They were mates and were bound together. Forever. Wharick's green eyes closed for a moment as he absorbed the feeling of completeness their bond provided his spirit."
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"I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible."
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"Only a handful of individuals in human history can be truly hailed as Christians, such as Tolstoy, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rumi, Martin Luther King Jr. and a few others."
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"You can do anything if you can combine your passion with focus, effort and persistence."
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"Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?"
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"Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there."
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"When you choose not to take action on something because you realize you have no control, this is letting go."
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"My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed."
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"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."
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"What none of them knew, of course, was that Carrie White was telekinetic."
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"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other."
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"The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense."
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"Emotionally intelligent people trust their instincts and can identify how certain thoughts, feelings, people, and situations make them feel."
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"Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better."
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"All manners are not created equal and can conjure different interpretations based on the environment in which they are being displayed."
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"Never allow opinions of others to disturb your inner tranquillity."
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"This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic."
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"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."
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"What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are."
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"Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique."
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"To grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at water's edge and clumsily grab whatever happens to float by me. Rather, it is to deliberately step into waters both calm and turbulent in order to wrestle great things to shore."
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"To explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map."
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"Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad."
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"Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, 'atheism' is a term that should not even exist. No one needs to identify himself as a 'non-astrologer' or a 'non-alchemist.' We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs."
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"The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand."
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