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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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"So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too."
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"Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days."
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"Little Alice fell d o w nthe hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul."
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"Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late."
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"When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration."
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"Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?"
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"I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book."
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"A smile is a reflection of the simplicity of the soul."
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"Watch a good movie sometime without reference to what's happening but only with attention to how it was photographed; you'll see the change of focus-zoom in, pan out, close-up on face, fade to black, open from above-easily. You want to do that in what you write; it's one of the things that keep people's eyes on the page, though they're almost never conscious of it."
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"Why aren't I seeing more tracks?' After no reply he repeated himself. 'Helllloooo, why aren't there more tracks?' His eyes examined the ground. Then he suddenly saw a foot? Breccan slowly lifted his head to see Darius, obviously irritated, standing in front of him with his arms crossed over his chest."
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"Be knowledgeable but humble. Be wise and simple."
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"You haven't seen a thing until you've seen this man fight. My sword is sharp. My heart strong. My spirit ferocious - and I am going to live. Let the swords clash. Let the fight begin."
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"So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again."
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"Anyone who offers their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get."
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"When someone else doesn't believe in you or your dreams, remember it's about them, not you."
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"Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry."
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"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."
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"Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?""Guns?" asked Jesper."Ships?" queried Inej."Bombs?" suggested Wylan. "Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered."
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"When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh."
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"New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications."
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"Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time."
Time,
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"The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it."
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"You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when you are at the bed of the ocean. At that exact moment, your true self will be revealed. You will really know if you are a believer or an atheist, whether you really love life or hate it as you usually say. All your claims will be tested."
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"It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly."
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"What was he? A mere human, stuck between the rungs of blended adolescence and nascent adulthood. What power did he command over the mysterious forces of love? Which sword could shatter the impenetrable armour of desire?"
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"The more desperate the situation, the more opportunity for miracle. If you need something from God, you need to be at the right place, the right position and at the right time."
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