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"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
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"I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded."
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"Always let your heart sing, no musical talent needed."
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"Dear, sweet, beautiful girl."
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"One of the general patterns of good (i.e., striking and memorable) writing is the effect of repetition. If you use a certain element-a plot device, an image, a noticeable phrase-once, readers may or may not notice it consciously, but it doesn't disturb the flow of their reading. If you use that element twice, they won't notice it consciously-but they will notice it subconsciously, and it will add to the resonance of the writing or to their sense of depth and involvement (and if it's a plot device, it will heighten the dramatic tension). But if you use that element three times, everybody will notice it the third time you do it."
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"Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women."
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"If you want to do something better, do it with profound love."
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"If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?"
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"With every new encounter with God your vision becomes clearer and sharper."
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"If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours."
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"Your commitment must be full, and then you will see fruit."
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"When life beats us down, we often do not feel worthwhile to ourselves nor to anyone else. Often, we try to hide our feelings of inadequacy in pursuit of perfection, which develops into self-loathing. If only we can be perfect, then we can be okay."
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"We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us."
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"You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having."
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"There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things."
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"To repent is depart from evil."
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"There is a higher form of hierarchy and that is the hierarchy of the spirit. When I stand in front of a person, I stand in front of a soul and I have met magnificent souls in bodies possessing no money, as well as parched and shallow souls in bodies bathed in riches. In the same light, I have met magnificent souls in bodies bathed in wealth, as well as parched and shallow souls in bodies that are impoverished. I am tired of people busying their minds with hierarchy based upon money, because this form of hierarchy is primitive; meanwhile there is an altogether higher form of hierarchy that is of the soul. As you judge man and woman based upon their riches, I laugh at your primitive form of judgment! When I stand in front of a human, I stand in front of a soul."
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"Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth."
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"She was deemed an unfit mother, in spite of the fact that she goes to the gym every day,' Hal once told me. . . .Beautiful people are often forgiven for many things--and maybe she's gotten through life that way, but I don't forgive her for anything--and I don't even know what awful things she's done other than showing a lack of parental fitness."
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"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."
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"If we want a world with greater equality, we need to acknowledge that women are less likely to keep their hands up. We need institutions and individuals to notice and correct for this behavior by encouraging, promoting, and championing more women. And women have to learn to keep their hands up, because when they lower them, even managers with the best intentions might not notice."
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"Excuses are like butt holes everyone has 'em and they all stink."
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"What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?"
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"A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?"
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"The sorry religious novel comes about when the writer supposes that because of his belief, he is somehow dispensed from the obligation to penetrate concrete reality. He will think that the eyes of the Church or of the Bible or of his particular theology have already done the seeing for him, and that his business is to rearrange this essential vision into satisfying patterns, getting himself as little dirty in the process as possible."
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"The ability to stay calm and focused in the midst of change is what distinguishes great leaders from those just collecting a paycheck."
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"If you do not believe in your product or service enough to offer it to your own family and friends, then you should question the value of what you are selling."
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"If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you."
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"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."
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"The more powerful the powerful appear the more invisible they become, said Armando. This used to work differently than now. In the old days it was said that the powerful merged with the divine and the divine was all that one saw. But now the powerful have merged with the shadow, really with death, and when you encounter them they are really hard to see."
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"A life filled with excuses is defeated, unproductive, and miserable."
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"After all,'I've been thinking' meant she had previously identified the parameters and analyzed all the branching considerations."
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"If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly, doesn't it? Yet it's no sillier than the word alcoholism. The reason alcoholism no longer sounds silly to you is because you're used to hearing it, reading it, and thinking about it."
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"I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall."
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"Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims."
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"Nothing is possible without time."
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