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Quotes by Author
"Let Christ's great commission become yours."
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"Honesty doesn't mean you reveal everything you discern and feel. That is why we have the word discretion..."
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"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
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"But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?"
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"I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight."
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"Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds."
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"The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity."
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"It's one thing to have the respect of your peers in the business. Their opinions are not always verbalized but if you are doing the right thing you don't need validation."
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"One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried."
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"My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature."
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"Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life."
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"Be generous with your smile and try not to frown.And you will see my children, your smile will never let you down."
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"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
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"We need you.'I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore."
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"Next step: take the veil off."
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"I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human."
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"The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize."
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"That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is "supposed to be"...'Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else."
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"In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him."
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"A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishes himself for what he thinks."
Man,
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"Look for the inner ANGEL in yourself. Doing good and spreading JOY can be as natural here on Earth as it is in Heaven. Sharing our LOVE is not only easy to do, it is what we are meant to do. May we take the time today to find the inner angel inside ourselves. I hope that we let that angel out to bless the world with our love and always remember that we don't need wings to fly!"
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"We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is."
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"A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet."
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"She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me."
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"There's no reason that anything should ever become obsolete, whether it be VHS tapes, celluloid film, print books or even the previous versions of a computer operating system, as long as even just one person still wants them around. After all, one thing leads to another, old inventions are the basis for new ones, inventors and designers and scientists and hobbyists worked hard to create all these things, so don't they deserve some respect, enough not to have their ideas buried in the dust by the latest trends and fads?"
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"She called me 'my lady, ' she told him in a plaintive voice. 'I don't know who that is. I'm no lady. The last of his fury faded away to be replaced with a quick gleam. He peered under the sheet. 'I can attest to that."
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"Life was never meant to be a rehearsal."
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"To be magnificent, attract beauty like a magnet."
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"Whoever ego motivates becomes an idol worshipper."
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"If supernatural life in God's paradise is more important than natural life on earth, then the day you received Jesus Christ is more important than the day you were naturally born. Jon 3:6"
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"There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer's estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged."
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"Sometimes people feel they need to control everything, as if they could! Matters of life and death are out of your hands. The more you come to realize this, the harder you try to prove that you can control SOMETHING, anything. All you can really control is your response to what happens. You cannot control matters of life or death and because of this you are not accountable. You cannot be held liable for anything that you have no power over. Guilt, shame and blame make no sense when circumstances are beyond your control."
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"Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire country is destroyed."
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"Thank God who gave us relief from ruins of suffering."
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"She was of traditional build herself, but her figure was largely concealed by the folds of a generously cut shift dress made out of a flecked green fabric. It was like a tent, thought Mma Ramotswe--a camouflage tent of the sort that the Botswana Defence Force might use. But I do not sit in judgement on the dresses of others, she told herself, and a tent was a practical enough garment, if that is what one felt comfortable in."
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"The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it."
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