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Quotes by Author
"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."
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"I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy."
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"Cultivate your thoughts in to positive seeds and see your life change for the better!"
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"Your challenges are like tall walls with weak foundations. They'll fall when you dare to give them a blow. Don't be afraid to dare... You will surely overcome!"
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"The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature."
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"We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us " a wall that keeps love out."
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"It was a good thing to be an African. There were terrible things that happened in Africa, things that brought shame and despair when one thought about them, but that was not all there was in Africa. However great the suffering of the people of Africa, however harrowing the cruelty and chaos brought about by soldiers-small boys with guns, really-there was still so much in Africa from which one could take real pride. There was the kindness, for example, and the ability to smile, and the art and the music."
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"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."
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"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years."
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"Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good."
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"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."
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"Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge."
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"God always has a perfect way out for you where negativity says that there's no way out. Relax and allow your heart to beat with faith and courage. You truly have a great God."
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"Challenges prepare us for something greater! Only when it's done with love, can this greatness change us and fulfill our highest good!"
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"My soul is utterly frantic for that single place of perfect refuge from which I can clearly see the winds rip and hear the tempest tear, yet despite the ferocity of the tumult I rest in such a sublime peace it is as if neither existed at all. And if I have not yet found such a place, it is because I have not yet found God."
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"I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: 'If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me through. I would be like a taxpayer with rights. I would have done my duty and now I would deserve a certain quality of life. But if it is really true that I am a sinner saved by sheer grace -- at God's infinite cost -- then there's nothing he cannot ask of me."
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"I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand - new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen."
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"Maybe we will meet again in the paths of dreaming, but my heart tells me this is farewell."
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"Believe in yourself. Believe in the power of your strength. Never, never lose yourself confidence."
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"The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others."
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"Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time."
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"The earth therefore is not Gods jurisdiction. It is man' jurisdiction."
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"What you truly own, is what you have inside you. Everything else can be destroyed, robbed or wasted."
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"Fire does transform, but the fire within is always better than fire beneath!"
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"In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there."
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"One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life."
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"With automobile accidents, mechanical failure is seldom the cause; and most often, operator error. I find the same to be true with corporate failings.. the people are rarely the issue. the shortcoming is most often found in the leadership."
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"We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one like me."
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"They were completely alone on the long stretch of country road and there was no one else to share the moment with them."
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"We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we've been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it!"
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"It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means."
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"Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier."
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"If you are possessed by the desire to be useful for God on this earth, He will honor you, you will prosper and your life will be a testimony of success."
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"If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know how much truth is stronger than errors, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence."
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"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."
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"I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have."
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"A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart will dictate her wardrobe and appearance."
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