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Quotes by Author
"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players."
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"Until you let go of that bitterness in your heart, it will find a comfortable place to destroy your dreams, your sight and most times, your sleep."
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"You ask me to make peace with the monsters who did this?She didn't even look around at 'this.' "Yes. The alternative is extinction. There's no coming back from that-no new weapon to fire when no one is left and you've no universe left to fire it in."
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"I like the chase, scavenging and how we unravel. Standing naked with all my pores at the door. Waiting for a response, a love, someone to call my home. Where my emotions graze the air and I'm lying half past gone."
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"I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked."
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"Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck."
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"You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others."
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"The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people."
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"Years ago, my childhood friend Steve lost his father. Since Steve had left Tallahassee shortly after high school graduation, we had not seen each other for over a decade. Upon learning of his father's funeral, I made plans to attend to "be there." After the service, I approached the family's receiving line. When Steve saw me, he was stunned that I had made the effort to be there for him. We both cried as we hugged and he said, "I can't tell you what it means to me that you showed up. Showing up sends a message that you are a devoted friend, a team player, a dedicated parent, an inspiring leader, a loyal mate, and more."
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"Don't wait for a genie to grant your wishes. That power is yours."
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"Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day."
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"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."
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"Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries."
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"One day, I decided I was going to write books forever."
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"I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian."
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"There's her silence, loud as a roar, pulling at me like the greatest sadness ever, like I want to take it and press myself into it and just disappear forever down into nothing.What a relief that would feel like right now. What a blessed relief."
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"War, misery, and death spared no soul, and took pity on no family."
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"But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears', for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house". The moral of 'Snow White' is "Never eat apples". The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand."
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"The world seems to have certain criteria with which it judges the value of people."
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"One man's fight is another man's freedom."
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"How do you know whether you're serious about your values? You fight for them when they're violated even if it costs you title, favor, friendship, and profit."
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"Stay positive. Be kind. Love your family. Set goals. Be humble. Respect all. Laugh loudly. Be honest. Do your best. Stay focused. Practice gratitude."
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"Your appearance, attitude, and confidence define you as a person.A professional, well-dressed golfer, like a businessperson, gives the impression that he thinks that the golf course and/or workplace and the people there are important."
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"When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an 'idol,' something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is absolute. Your anger is actually the way the idol keeps you in its service, in its chains. Therefore if you find that, despite all the efforts to forgive, your anger and bitterness cannot subside, you may need to look deeper and ask, 'What am I defending? What is so important that I cannot live without?' It may be that, until some inordinate desire is identified and confronted, you will not be able to master your anger."
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"Consciousness is part of our nature as sentient beings, but doesn't mean we are aware at a particular moment. By perceiving our consciousness - becoming conscious of consciousness, we become aware."
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"Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present."
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"Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill sang, it was not about the song, really. She could sing the phone book. She could sing a shopping list. Whatever she sang, whatever the words or the tune, it was so beautiful, so achingly lovely, that no one could listen and be untouched."
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"Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with."
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"In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep."
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"For all the secret societies lunatics out there who think they know anything, why don't you chill..We're ALL guests on Earth, not Management."
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"Who hit you?""Clara.""Clara!""She whaled me one in return for upsetting you. Well, at least, that was the main reason."
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"In order to recognize the Truth, you have to separate yourself from the Truth; and to explain the Truth, you have to separate yourself from the recognition. This is why a wordsmithed Truth is nothing but a shadow of the shadow of the Truth. If Buddha had yawned instead of holding up a fower, would that gesture have been any less representative of the Truth?"
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"Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock."
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"Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world."
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"In reality, Little Ones, there are two winters. One made for kids; the other for adults. The one made for adults is always too cold and always too long. The one made for kids is always perfect. A kid winter is an endless and wild snow carnival where all the rides are free."
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"I don't complain about the horror of life, I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about is that I exist and suffer and can't even dream of being removed from my feeling of suffering."
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"A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live."
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"Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children."
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