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"We were in the middle of a scene, and this crazy woman comes roaring out of the crowd, screaming, grabs my whip, and damned if she didn't punch me. Rubbing his reddened chin, the man's lips curved a little. "It's almost funny, but still, she ruined our scene."
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"Your life paradigm is the set of beliefs or operating system for your life. Make sure you choose one that supports lifelong happiness."
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"It makes a soul lonely when even your tongue has no home."
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"But those are just words, and words are just stories, and eventually, always, stories come to an end."
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"The only condition that miracles will come is after you have done your best."
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"Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person."
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"Those who understand spiritual reality make a mark."
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"It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships."
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"For a permanent solution to easing tension and soothe the rough waters of the world that cause people to go to drugs, drinking, gambling, pornography, overeating, or anything that will give them some temporary relief, you can't beat the support and encouragement of a friend."
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"The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms."
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"When people say there is no place like home, the first to agree are the homeless."
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"For example, the call for equal rights has perverted into 'let's all be the same. Male and female biological differences are discounted, because 'male and 'female are considered 'outdated social constructs, and while that is partially true, the social construct stance becomes clear reductionism when it totally discounts clear differences in male and female biology (i.e., androgyny is not the same as equality)."
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"I still had my hand on his side, careful not to press. He reached out and hooked a finger into the belt loop on my jeans. It felt so natural, so fulfilling, to be there with him. To talk with him as if we did it everyday. As if we'd been doung it every day for years. Not even the heat of Ian's fury could penetrate the warmth I was getting from Reyes."
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"I liked this rich lifestyle, but I loved the poor lifestyle better. The less money people had, the less greedy they seemed to be. The people who lived around our flocks seemed to always love everyone around them. Even though they aren't always happy and can't always afford the bills, they are still glad to be alive."
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"Then the other door opened. I wen't rigid. If I had thought Reth's was beautiful, it was nothing to this soul. It filled the night with light, dancing and rippling like the reflection on a pond. I hadn't seen many souls, but I knew this one was special. I wanted it. I needed it."
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"Persons curious in chronology may, if they like, work out from what they already know of the Wimsey family that the action of the book takes place in 1935; but if they do, they must not be querulously indignant because the King's Jubilee is not mentioned, or because I have arranged the weather and the moon's changes to suit my own fancy. For, however realistic the background, the novelist's only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they do but jest, poison in jest: no offence in the world."
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"Death comes in endless forms. Of the body. Of the soul. Of the heart. - Catriona Mercant, philosopher and warrior. (circa 1419)"
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"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman."
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"I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood."
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"Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!"
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"Upon achieving a lifelong dream, I thought, this is the way to live your life -- in the moment, and to the fullest."
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"The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform."
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"To embrace Jesus Christ, you must let go of the world by crucifying the pleasures of your flesh."
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"To feel everything in every way; to be able to think with the emotions and feel with the mind; not to desire much except with the imagination; to suffer with haughtiness; to see clearly so as to write accurately; to know oneself through diplomacy and dissimulation; to become naturalized as a different person, with all the necessary documents; in short, to use all sensations but only on the inside, peeling them all down to God and then wrapping everything up again and putting it back in the shop window like the sales assistant I can see from here with the small tins of a new brand of shoe polish."
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"Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ."
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"You spanked me, she told him."I did. He lifted her shoulders high enough to push a wedge pillow under the pad. "And I enjoyed it very much. You have a very spankable ass, no?"
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"You are a perfect spiritual being. Get used to that idea."
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"When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather."
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"The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another."
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"I do not politicize Christianity nor my discipleship as Jesus did not politicize either His divinity nor his humanity."
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"When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework."
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"His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish."
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"A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity, but the moment, that person starts to build a wall of separation between the self and the rest of humanity, coaxed by the textual commands of a scripture, the healthy religiousness turns into dangerous fundamentalism, which is a threat to both the self and the society."
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"You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story."
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"The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more."
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"Optimists are usually inexperienced."
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"Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype."
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"Many things might have caused pain this year. The good thing is that we would not have felt them if we weren't alive. Thankful that I'm alive!"
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"Live with a pure and open heart and mind. Quiet all the rest. Our biggest obstacle was always ourselves. Thoughts that come from a place of love: are never wrong."
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