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"When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor."
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"He has his head in the clouds. He must live in a skyscraper."
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"I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close. I wasn't shiny and charming like my brother, stunning and graceful like my mother, or smart and dynamic like my friends. That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are."
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"Forgiveness is a very curious thing, in that you must not only know how to forgive; but you must also know how to accept forgiveness. Both of these aspects are equally important. When someone forgives you- believe it."
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"I'm getting my stuff, he said, and bolted for the steps."You don't have to move out, Astrid called after him.Sam stopped halfway up the steps. "Oh, I'm sorry. Is that the voice of the council telling me where I can go?"There's no point having a town council if you think you don't have to listen to it, Astrid said. She was using her patient voice, trying to calm the situation. "Sam, if you ignore us, no one will pay attention."Guess what, Astrid, they're already ignoring you. The only reason anyone pays any attention to you and the others is because they're scared of Edilio's soldiers. He thumped his chest. "And even more scared of me."
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"She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless, the way people do when they're no longer sure they have a reason to be connected to this world. The slightest breeze could have carried her away, into the night sky, across the universe."
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"One needs to pursue some sort of a creative interest in order to keep life from eating us alive."
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"Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence."
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"Start thinking for yourself, ask 'why?' and even venture to say 'why should I?' and pretty soon you will have half the world at your throat for being a 'trouble maker'."
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"You think it's time for a new beginning. You long to start from scratch, so you seek new things - trying like hell to reinvent yourself. Out with the old and in with the world's new. But you'll never create a version of yourself that is as magical and unique as the original. So... just be you."
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"In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it."
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"The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention."
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"Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be."
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"I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom."
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"Paul was terribly personal. The books I like are the ones that make you feel like you are with a person who is being quite vulnerable, telling you all sorts of stuff that is personal, and that's the thing Paul did that makes me like him."
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"Is there anything in your life trying to slip off? Is your health threatening to leave you? Is your joy threatening to go? Is your job in jeopardy? Is your marriage shaking? Is there anything that you have been looking for in life? Is there anything near you that is about leaving you? Is there anything that you ever lost that was so dear to you? Jesus asked me to tell you that whatever that is gone out of your hand will come back again. Whatever that has gone out of your hand that you need to stay back with you will come back again."
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"Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN."
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"Don't keep those people in your life who are completely negative in approach. Eventually these people will stress you out and be the source of your downfall."
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"Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less."
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"When you confront, you save yourself of disillusionment."
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"Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard today for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps tonight when I was straining the milk and never thinking of clovers. Cousin Jimmy says that is the way luck always comes, and it is no use to look for it."
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"She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue."
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"We're probably leaving soon, Rider said. "Might catch a movie.Jayden leaned against the wall as he looked around the room. "I see how it is. You figure you don't stand a chance with Mallory now that I'm here to show her what a real man looks like. He winked as Rider just shook his head. "Fine, leave. But no dumb movie will be as entertainin' as the Jayden Show. And I don't charge admission."
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"The day of democracy is past," he said. "Past for ever. That day began with the bowmen of Crecy, it ended when marching infantry, when common men in masses ceased to win the battles of the world, when costly cannon, great ironclads, and strategic railways became the means of power. To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before-it commands earth and sea and sky. All power is for those who can handle wealth...."
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"I love him. So much. To the point where you won't understand. You don't get it because I don't get it. It's there. It exists. It flows. It moves like rapids through my veins. Comes with bursts and occasionally fades with the day, but it's always there. And when you find love like that, you don't want to give it up. But sometimes you have to and sometimes you have to give it to someone else. That's the hard part."
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"Some people pray for miracles ... with Cosmic Ordering YOU manifest them!"
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"The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people."
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"Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program."
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"If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere."
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"I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow..."
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"The digital philosophy is to live as "customers, when practicing IT management."
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"The first principle of time is that it must be converted into product."
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"I've always been led to believe that the ultimate goal for an author is the movie deal. Now I understand that the movie deal is merely a MEANS TO A MUCH HIGHER END: NAIL POLISH."
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"You have a gorgeous ass, and it holds handprints beautiful."
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"Neal huffed. Frustrated. "I hate that you thought I wouldn't call--I hate that everything is so tentative between us right now. When did everything get so tentative?"
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"If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don't be surprised when it dies."
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