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"Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes. And very, very rarely - by some miracle of chance and coincidence, butterflies beating their wings just so and all the threads hanging together for a minute - you get the chance to do the right thing."
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"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
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"He'd given up his mortality, his soul, for this moment, this second chance, and if she fell in love with him again, he needed to know it was real."
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"[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her; with a blind unconscious yearning for something that would link together the wonderful impressions of this mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it."
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"Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary."
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"My happiness with the future and the present depends on my ability to let the past go and make peace with it."
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"It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds."
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"Soul mates recognise one another's vibration. They instantly fuse to the life force that surrounds their core of being."
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"I rolled my eyes. "For defending my honor, you dullard."He yanked me beneath a shadowed awning. I had a moment's panic when I thought he'd spotted trouble, but then his arms were around me and his lips were pressed to mine.When he finally drew back, my cheeks were warm and my legs had gone wobbly."Just to be clear," he said, "I'm not really interested in defending your honor.""Understood," I managed, hoping I didn't sound too ridiculously breathless."
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"Marvel hates her because she's pretty and doesn't have any kids to worry about."
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"There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like."
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"Many men remain spoiled boys that have never grown up. Women are prepared to raise them and take pain with patience, both as a condescendant contribution to supercilious compassion and as a proof of the eminence of their sense of worth. ['PrAat-A -penser" / "Ready-to-wear thinking']"
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"Conversation with God leads to an encounter with God. Prayer turns theology into experience."
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"Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace."
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"That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?"
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"When you can't stop what you're doing long enough to improve it, you will never stop what you are doing."
Will,
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"Great art, she felt, had a calming effect on the viewer; it made one stop in awe, which is exactly what Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol did not do. You did not stop in awe. They stopped you in your tracks, perhaps, but that was not the same thing; awe was something quite different."
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"Only one life, it will soon be past,only what's done for Christ will last."
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"I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time since I thought about God, but I think about him now. It is only natural. I am glad, suddenly, that I shot Eric in the foot instead of the head."
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"Don't be afraid to take a chance. The worst that can happen is that you don't succeed this time."
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"I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles."
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"You should have hopes. Hopes to nourish the courage that helps get success in life."
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"Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance."
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"As a believer, you need to take responsibility of the Kingdom of God on earth."
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"Nothing says I'm serious about success more than waking up with the sun."
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"Did you see any of those who are downtrodden, would that justice help them? Anyone oppressed and suppressed around you take a decision, make plans, strategize, to begin to proclaim and establish justice in your world."
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"Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps."
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"Archer wouldn't consider her allowance of the guard to be evidence of the powers of rational argument. He'd take it as proof that she was in love with whichever of her guards was the most handsome."
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"We are continuing God's work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential, whenever we elaborate and 'unfold creation beyond where it was when we found it, we are following God's pattern of creative cultural development."
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"Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present."
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"Have you ever heard of the expression, ladies first" "Yes""Well, it's truer in bed than it is anywhere else."
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"At the last moment, the fish and I exchange a troubled glance. The murrel seems to be demanding an explanation. Alas, I am in no position to start justifying the unusual treatment. What comes next is a new experience for both the fish and me."
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"Things we had, like respect and trust, but also freely expressed desires and accountability to whatever degree it took to make both people happy. It took work, a willingness to fight passionately and fairly--out of bed, not just in it--commitment and honesty. It took waking up and saying each day, 'I hold this man sacred and always will. He's my sun, moon, and stars.' It took letting the other person in; a thing I'd stopped doing. It took being unafraid to ask for what you wanted, to put yourself on the line, to risk it all for love."
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"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."
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"You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job."
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"With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage."
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"I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged."
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"Some changes we can control, but we find that many things are inseparably wired into the life we share in local, national, and global communities. For example, the healthy lifestyle you are determined to live and take to be a personal choice of which you have control, is heavily influenced and limited by the culture and industries of the communities you belong to."
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"It's strange. How hollow i feel. Like there might be echoes inside of me. Like I'm one of those chocolate rabbits they used to sell around Easter, the ones that were nothing more than a sweet shell encapsulating a world of nothing. I'm like that. I encapsulate a world of nothing."
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