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Quotes by Author
"There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another."
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"Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON."
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"Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet."
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"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
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"For every choice you make, there is a consequence to face. Choose wisely!"
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"For Death's life to be extinguished... now that was something to truly dread."
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"Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses."
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"Eucharisteo means 'to give thanks,' and give is a verb, something that we do. God calls me to do thanks. to give the thanks away. That thanks-giving might literally become thanks-living. That our lives become the very blessings we have received. I am blessed. I can bless. Imagine! I could let Him make me the gift! I could be the joy!"
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"Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature."
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"We write our personal story as intermittent authors; the narrator is always searching for a unitive point of view. We strive to perceive oneself from a unified perspective, but it is virtually impossible to do so. Human perception of the self is an illusion. We constantly sift through shifting memories. We experience the present under the fragrance cast by the past and under the illusionary aura of the future."
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"Yoga does not always cure stress. It neutralizes it through increasing awareness and by changing self-perception."
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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
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"We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction."
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"The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over."
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"God always protects what He considers to be a blessing for a person."
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"If you lose God's paradise in Heaven, then you never existed."
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"The past is no further away than the last breath you took."
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"That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way."
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"I always enjoyed studying languages and I learned from my Master that He wanted humans to be called Human Beings to continually remind them that they are really verbs and that their soul purpose is to BE. I think they tend to forget about this, they are so busy being nouns doing things that won't matter tomorrow."
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"There's nothing lonelier than empty relationships. At least when you're alone you can be yourself, but when you're in empty relationships you can't even be yourself.You can be real alone, or you can be a ghost with false friends.Pulse proximity is not intimacy, and it's worse than no friends at all."
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"The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine."
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"There are no coincidences, only synchronicities: mini miracles placed before us by the Angels with love to inspire the mind and expand the heart."
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"In our age, the problems that needs to be solved are growing in number and business of life is overpowering."
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"Corrigan crept up to the bar, cautiously moving around it. It looked like he was copying all the moves he'd seen in old cop movies and westerns, and doing it rather badly. He lowered the pistol. There was no one behind the bar. There was however, an open trapdoor. And that would mean the bounty hunter was - ."Don't move! Came Beck's distant, slightly muffled, barked order. "My turn, I think!"
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"The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact."
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"Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair."
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"When we turn,is there something shoved inside of us or is it more that something inside of us has been released?"
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"In order to understand our life mission and answer the question "Where am I going?" we need to grow and shape our personality."
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"Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold."
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"I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy."
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"I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt."
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"They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea."
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"In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine."
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"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious."
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"[Fireheart] mewed, 'It's not my place to judge you.' Greystripe looked up as Fireheart went on. 'Greystripe, whatever you decide to do, I will always be your friend.'"
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"Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance."
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