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Quotes by Author
"I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own fundamental gender bias, which makes it inclined towards the wellbeing of women, over the wellbeing of the whole society. And if history has shown anything, it is that such fundamental biases in time corrupt even the most glorious ideas and give birth to prejudice, bigotry and differentiation."
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"Everyone needs a place to be honest."
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"A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it."
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"Money can buy you everything to fill your time but it cannot buy time itself. And things are definitely not time."
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"A simple handshake is not always a simple handshake. The way it is delivered can take on a million meanings and interpretations. As with every other form of body language and non-verbal communication, you are sending silent messages simply by the way you shake hands."
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"In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or power will keep a mistress and a few girlfriends on the side. Only in America, still suffering from its grotesque, hypocritical Puritan heritage, do we persist in attempting to deny and repeal a million years of basic primate biology."
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"When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level."
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"For some time I've had my eye on Tom McCall's seat - which is a great deal more than he's had on it."
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"I never counted on you, lass. You are strong, honorable, clever, shrewd, beautiful, and resilient. You doona ever quit, and you doona ever give up. So why give up on me?"
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"Life is a rich literature."
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"Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever begin to imagine."
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"It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about."
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"Help people help themselves. Don't judge, just help. In this process, be cautious to simply point them in the right direction and help them get moving. Don't make your journey theirs, nor make their journey yours."
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"The orgasm came upon her unexpectedly. It slammed into her with the force of a tidal wave. Her breath locked in her lungs as the climax swept over her, lifting her up and carrying her to untold heights."
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"Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery."
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"As Roran watched, the man's arms, neck, and chest shriveled, and his bones appeared in sharp relief-from the bowlike curve of his collarbones to the hollow saddle of his hips, where his stomach hung like an empty waterskin. His lips puckered and drew back farther than they were intended to over his yellow teeth, baring them in a grisly snarl, while his eyeballs deflated as if they were engorged ticks being squished empty of blood, and the surrounding flesh sank inward."
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"Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside."
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"We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks."
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"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."
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"At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me from me."
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"Resilience is not a commodity you are born with, waiting silently on tap. It is self-manufactured painstakingly over time by working through your problems and never giving up, even in the face of difficulty or failure."
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"We know of no spectacle more ridiculous-or more contemptible-than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth."
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"If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals."
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"One of the best ways you can fight discrimination is by taking good care of yourself. Your survival is not just important, it's an act of revolution."
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"It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry."
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"You need to discover how to invest your life."
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"Believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn't."
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"Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual."
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"You don't need to know the purpose as you write, but when you read over something you've written, you should be able to point to any given element-be that a line of dialogue, a descriptive phrase, a plot point-and say why it's there."
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"I would surmise that we must cherish the resources that God has given us to achieve a goal more than we cherish the goal itself. For if we fall victim to the pursuit of the goal alone, then the goal has suddenly become our god."
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"The Great Wall of Facebook:Having just visited the Great Wall of China, I'm thinking about the walls we build on FB. They are real. They keep people in and others out.Build your wall carefully by answering this question:What are you building your wall around?"
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"I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday."
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"Whatever circumstances you were born into, whatever family life and education you had or didn't have, you came here to make your dreams come true, and no matter where you are now, you are fully equipped with everything you need to do it!"
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