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Quotes by Author
"Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved."
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"I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that."
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"But she remembered having told Archer once that you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upward and, just when you thought you'd reached your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people, and mix with their pain. And grow larger, but somehow less oppressive. She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of people; she had not noticed how many people were trapped in that place with her."
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"Things are happening out there. Don't waste your life in wishful thinking. Get out of your cocoon and go make a name for yourself. Life is too short to be wasted in oblivion."
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"I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own."
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"My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am."
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"In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise."
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"It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one."
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"Once you get off the bandwagon of believing that truth is your enemy and is bad news with all kinds of associated unhappy obligations, you can then afford to take it on with some enthusiasm and start to have some fun with it."
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"Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones."
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"There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities."
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"You are positively beautiful and I love you. Pass it on."
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"When you begin to run after miracles, Jesus feels insulted."
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"Stop blaming people for not helping you to solve your problems. The question is simple "are they the ones in the problem with you"? People may teach you, people may advise you, people may inspire you, but it takes YOU to go the extra mile and make an indelible impact!"
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"Life in the Kingdom of God is accepting and knowing Jesus Christ, it is studying and applyingHis teachings to your life."
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"Tiago turned to survey the large, crowded ballroom. 'Good job not killing anybody.'That's what Pia said, ' Dragos told him. 'Night's not over yet."
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"Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers."
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"Winter shook her head, apology swimming in her amber eyes. Scarlet would have wanted to hug her if she hadn't simultaneously wanted to strangle her."
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"If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?"
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"I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection."
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"I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't."
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"I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that."
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"Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.."
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"The pain you endure today will lead to a better tomorrow. Don't dwell so much on the pain but focus on the lessons learned. There in lies your strength to rise above all odds. Your best is yet to come."
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"For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? -some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning-indeed they did."
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"A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past."
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"Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi."
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"She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors."
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"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."
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"It is unimpressive to interrupt another person while they are talking. Interrupting someone in mid-sentence demonstrates that your focus is on yourself, not the person talking. I had a friend who used a humorous retort whenever someone would interrupt him. He would graciously, albeit sarcastically, say, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to speak while you were interrupting. It always got a laugh, yet he was cleverly letting the intruder know of his infraction without being too confrontational."
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"There exists a direct link, or harmony, between the past, the present and the future. This has been misinterpreted, or exaggerated in both directions, either by the assumption that everything is random, or that there is already a predetermined destiny. There is an actual link, and there is a lot of mystery or room to play and invent."
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"Ritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to "suppress sin. If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer."
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"Every thought is a potential reality."
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"To live in peace and righteousness is to be restored to God's dominion."
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