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Quotes by Author
"War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too."
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"One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it."
37
"Be thoughtful but never forget to be kind."
37
"By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity."
37
"What is the purpose of wealth if it cannot serve an ideal that enhances humanity and betters the lives of the people, even if that means those we have never met before in our lives?"
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"The Piper is coming nearer," he said, "he is nearer than he was that evening I saw him before. His long, shadowy cloak is blowing around him. He pipes - he pipes - and we must follow - Jem and Carl and Jerry and I - round and round the world. Listen - listen - can't you hear his wild music?"
37
"The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts."
37
"Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement."
37
"You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you."
37
"If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life would be transformed."
37
"In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend."
37
"This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered."
37
"A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal."
37
"It is foolish to regret anything form one's past."
37
"If you are waiting to be compelled before you could invest your time productively, then, it means you are not the owner of your life but the system that is compelling you."
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"No one can read the books of Moses with any care without understanding that law can be a means of grace. Certainly this law is of one spirit with the Son of Man who says, "I was hungry and you fed me. I was naked and you clothed me." This kind of worldliness entails the conferring of material benefit over and above mere equity. It means a recognition of and respect for both the intimacy of God's compassion and the very tangible forms in which it finds expression."
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"We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous. but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction."
37
"If you have the desire, passion and enthusiasm to do something, nothing in the world will stop you."
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"Saphira: The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. But options are before you, choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you new hope and purpose.Eragon: But what can I do?Saphira: The only true guide is your heart. Nothing less than its supreme desire can help you."
37
"Someone asked me why does bad thing happen to good people?My answer: because when bad thing happens to bad nobody sees it. When something bad happens to a bad man there is no difference but when it happens to a good person people will know. Satan doesn t advertise good things because that is not his job. His job is to steal, kill and destroy. The devil doesn t talk good of good people but good people should always talk of something that is good."
37
"This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula."
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"Give yourself a break. Embrace and accept yourself for who YOU are. Love yourself and be kind to yourself. See the best in yourself! Be brave and have courage to be comfortable in your own skin. Knowing your self - worth is everything."
37
"If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go."
37
"Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin."
37
"Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change,' she said with a sigh."
37
"Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won't single-highhandedly help you resolve them."
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"To be the cynosure of all eyes, do the extraordinary when you are least expected."
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"What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?"
37
"We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined."
37
"The Princess of Parma was a Courvoisier in that she was incapable of innovation in social matters, but unlike the Courvoisiers in that the surprises the Duchesse de Guermantes perpetually held in store for her engendered in her not, as in them, antipathy but a sense of wonder."
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"Trying to keep up appearances is a signal of decay on the inside. Beware shallow living-in yourself and in others. It is only in the depths that life can thrive."
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