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Quotes by Author
"By focusing your thoughts on the things you are thankful for, you attract more things to be grateful for into your life."
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"Even if what you're preparing for does not happen, your efforts aren't for naught. With preparation comes knowledge of each situation, as well as the confidence to handle every new encounter with more grace and ease than the time before."
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"Your imagination and some masturbation is a much better alternative to finding out what kind of person a bit of casual sex transforms you into."
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"I can't stop thinking about what Caroline said to Minna about death. It isn't an infection, she said. She might be right. Then again, we've nested in the walls like bacteria. We've taken over the house, its insulation and its plumbing - we've made it our own. Or maybe it's life that's the infection: a feverish dream, a hallucination of feelings. Death is purification, a cleaning, a cure."
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"You have a piercing. "So I do."Didn't that hurt?"A bit."
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"Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling)."
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"Positive lessons learned... Blessings recognized... Humor found... No regrets."
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"Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey."
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"Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead of the other way around."
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"People learn when they are ready to learn. Are you ready?"
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"I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather...the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it-very loose, the line of the law-so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are always-short of the blantant theft or cold-blooded murder-safely on the right side."
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"Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same."
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"Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one's eyes, of the various events of one's life, is rather a void from which at odd moments a chance resemblance enables ones to resuscitate dead recollections, but even then, there are innumerable little details which have not fallen into that potential reservoir of memory, and which will remain for ever unverifiable."
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"I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement."
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"Compassion is the magic ingredient to an amazing life."
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"I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll."
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"Have the vision to create something wonderful, something that has true value forever."
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"The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you've got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find, it will never be good enough."
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"Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be."
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"Remember to take time for God-it is life's only lasting investment."
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"Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. Love means nothing in tennis,But it's everything in life."
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"The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims."
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"Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other."
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"No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way promise to meet all of my needs for no person, collection of people, institution, government or organization possesses the array of resources necessary to do that. And so, I am left with the reality that either there is a God who can meet all of my needs, or I've been stranded in an existence that created me with needs that the existence itself cannot meet."
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"Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and I'll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight. I mean, trapping that one between the doors really shouldn't have worked, so clearly you're on board. Let me get out of here, and I'll...I don't know. Donate Adrian's money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not that last one."
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"A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a horse still."
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"A consultant: someone brought in to build a one-handled wheelbarrow."
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"I like my fellow man, but I also realize he carried a good measure of the Old Nick in him and he can find a good excuse for almost any kind of wrongdoing or mischief."
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"A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments."
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