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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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"Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual photo album."
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"Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity."
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"Those who are great know a secret that the remaining lot do not know."
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"For more than forty years, Judith Martin has inspired the world with advice on etiquette excellence, proper behavior, and codes of conduct through her critically acclaimed newspaper column, "Miss Manners. In an interview for her book, Miss Manners Minds Your Business, Mrs. Martin reminds us that "When you go to work, you want a degree of professionalism which does not involve hearing about all of the sordid details of a person's love life. We are not necessarily all friends, but have a job that needs to be done. A work friend is not always a social friend. One requires distance while the other embraces intimacy."
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"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."
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"Your level of knowledge determines if you can be a priest for God or not."
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"You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too."
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"No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right."
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"But if the Dream Kings were mine, what would I have to dream about? If I possessed the impossible landscapes, what would remain of the impossible?"
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"Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself."
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"Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in control. The world at large would not crumble because I turned off my iPhone. This is how it's supposed to be. For the first time in who knows how long, I felt like myself. Fully alive. Fully present. And fully aware of God's goodness."
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"She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:--"And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you."She tried to smile once more and expired."
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"The fatal law of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you."
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"Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say."
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"Dorian's going to love this.She glared. "I swear to God, you tell him, and I'll - what the hell could you threaten an alpha with?-"I'll tell Hawke you want to go on daily bonding runs with him."
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"You can't make someone do something just because you want them to. What you do have, however, is the opportunity to influence their choices."
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"Orwell's short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we were already aware. Parties and churches and states cannot be honest, but individuals can. Real books cannot be written by machines or committees. The truth is not always easy to discern, but a lie can and must be called by its right name. And the imagination, like certain wild animals, as Orwell himself once put it, will not breed in captivity. Actually, that last metaphor is beautiful but inaccurate. Even in the most dire conditions, there is a human will to resist coercion. We must believe that even now in North Korea, there are ideas alive inside human brains that were not put there by any authority."
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"Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born."
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"If the road behind me is not growing ever longer, then it is likely that the feet underneath me are not moving any longer. And if my feet are not moving, I have somehow, somewhere traded this most glorious journey for lesser endeavors."
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"Observe and blend in," he stated in his cool, unruffled voice. "Learn how to engage with humans, how to be human. Assimilate into their social structure and make them believe we are one of them."
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"Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good as any of them. I don't care who they are. Better in fact. In our world, Dagans are royalty and you, my son, are a prince."
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"Strong relationships come from well-bonded friendships."
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"People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her."
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"If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?"
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"If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again."
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"The worth of a society is genuine if established on cardinal law of kingdom - love."
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"Give away yourself for the benefit of others so that they will feel abundant."
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"Only a fool will accept a gift you cannot keep. You can't keep anything from the world but salvation is wise and everlasting. John 3:16"
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"Life is ever changing. We can always adapt to the new changes."
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"I want to do everything to you, all at once, he muttered. 'I want to stroke you, fuck you, hold you down, lift you up, pin you, take you. I want you to take me. Lord and Lady, Sophie, I don't know that I have any gentleness in me tonight."
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