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Quotes by Author
"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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"There are moments, such as the one that oppresses me now, when I feel my own self far more than I feel external things, and everything transforms into a night of rain and mud where, lost in the solitude of an out-of-the-way station, I wait interminably for the next third-class train."
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"I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?"
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"If you focus on bitterness, you destroy your life."
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"Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early."
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"The sin of fornication hinders a person from enjoying God's blessings."
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"Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington."
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"It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making."
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"The amount of money you make ethically is directly proportionate to the value you add in others people's life."
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"It comforts me to think that if we are created beings the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality or it would not be reasonable."
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"Just because you don't know how to do something doesn't mean it can't be done."
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"Google maps are one thing but there's no substitute for pounding the beat and I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to break into the back of the houses on Belgrave Place. Once I even for followed by a suspicious householder - I'd been hanging around staring at the exterior of his flat for too long."
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"The other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them."
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"People who truly serve God actively look for darkness in order to chase darkness away, they run after darkness, they search for darkness in all its ramifications and destructive consequences."
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"I am nothing.I'll never be anything.I couldn't want to be something.Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world."
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"God will never leave nor forsake you even at the time of the most difficult trials."
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"Hate destroys EVERYTHING except itself. Everything. Including you."
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"It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls."
Life,
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"I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible."
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"It was exciting to be off on a journey she had looked forward to for months. Oddly, the billowing diesel fumes of the airport did not smell like suffocating effluence, it assumed a peculiar pungent scent that morning, like the beginning of a new adventure, if an adventure could exude a fragrance."
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"I have never read, heard or seen hatred and guilt win a fight. When we walk in the light of forgiveness and love we meet true victory."
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"Letting go of the past does not mean that we should try to forget everything that has happened to us and not learn anything from our previous thinking patterns and actions. Letting go simply means that we do not allow the past to control our current thoughts and actions."
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"Bang, bang, bang. On it continued, the knocking incessant and aggravating. Conall growled, baring his canines as if ready to attack. She felt the feral dragon rippling under the surface, felt the exact same way right now. "Someone better be dead," she muttered. "I can arrange that." By his dark expression, she didn't think he was kidding."
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"I had this whole plan when I graduated high school: I was going to go to college, date a few guys, and then meet THE guy at the end of my freshman year, maybe at the beginning of my sophomore year. We'd be engaged by graduation and married the next year. And then, after some traveling, we'd start our family. Four kids, three years apart. I wanted to be done by the time I was 35."
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"Don't let life's challenges discourage you. Some things are just out of your control. Make it work for you! The most painful lessons of the past can teach you how to survive in the present ."
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"You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!"
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"Love is worth dying for, said the spermatozoid."
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"Don't fear uniqueness. Fear similarities and acceptance. Create a new trend by defining yourself."
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