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Quotes by Author
"Perspective alone can make an experience positive or negative, but regardless of which you let it become, it can only have as much power over your outlook on life as you give it."
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"Some that read this book will find its Libertarian and Constitutionalist slant a bit obtuse and maybe even off-putting. This author makes no apologies for viewing the history of the eugenics movement from this political perspective. It is the ethical and legal underpinnings of the American Revolution that remain as a guiding light while the eugenics movement continues to reemerge long after its alleged demise. Limited, or rather minimal government, goes a long way to curtail the disconnect that emerges when government grows so large that it no longer feels compelled to heed to the dictates of the governed."
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"Here is a paradox: People who think imperfect are closer to perfection than their counterparts who claim that they're perfect or closer..."
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"I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards."
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"What do you believe about who you are? About your capabilities? When was the last time you trusted yourself enough to test them?"
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"Greatness never comes from having power, but it embraces you when you empower."
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"Mapleshade: 'Your punishment is complete now, Crookedstar. You have lost everything.' Crookedstar: 'No, Mapleshade. You're wrong. I still have a clan that I love and am proud to lead. And now... ...now everything precious to me is here, in StarClan. My family is waiting here for me, when my ninth life has passed. It's you who have lost. You have no power over me anymore.' Mapleshade: 'I have destroyed you!' Crookedstar: 'No, Mapleshade. I still have the cats that I loved. You have nothing and no one."
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"Time is one of the most important components of life."
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"He rose up over her, intending to enter her when she suddenly sat up and shoved at his shoulders. He fell onto his back with a grunt. Shara was on all fours, her hair tousled, as she crawled toward him.In all his millennia of life, he had never seen anything so sexy. His cock twitched, and her gaze lowered to his engorged arousal."
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"Don't keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your precious something hidden for discovery. When it is discovered, it shall win awe and admiration, and it shall be an inspiration!"
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"Always, after he was in bed, there were voices - indefinite, fading, enchanting - just outside his window, and before he fell asleep he would dream one of his favorites waking dreams."
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"Do not listen to a single soul, but your own inner voice. Foster your will and make it as wild as possible. Dive deep into the mysterious fathoms of the universe and accomplish your purpose by hook or by crook, even if it means going down to the bottom of the ocean to meet your doom."
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"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."
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"Until that rainy Sunday at the movies 31 years ago, for me, companionship had been a mandate for life's good times. After Orca, it became a choice. My trip to the theater helped me to distinguish between loneliness (experienced by default), and solitude (choosing when and how to enjoy my own company), as I began a journey of engaging the world on my own terms. Over the years, that journey deepened as I traveled life's roads with increasing independence and confidence, whether I was attending graduate school at night while working during the day, buying my first house or changing careers."
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"The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time."
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"You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You are unique, so are others!"
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"His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. 'Beloved.'He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool."
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"Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?"
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"And why was I sitting on the curb? I honestly didn't know, but it was better than being inside my apartment, all alone. And yeah, I was alone out here, but it didn't feel that way. I was pretty sure there was a squirrel over by the tree, so that counted for something, right?"
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"I am beginning to think there are two kinds of people, ' she said. I waited. 'Those who forgive themselves too easily but will not forgive others.' 'And?' I asked. 'Those that forgive others too easily but will not forgive themselves."
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"Before passing judgement on someone's choices, stop and look at the questions they were trying to answer."
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"I confessed I did not have an opinion; I was only thirteen, and this was my very first dismemberment."
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"If your destiny is glorious, a protracted journey filled with ups and downs is ahead of you. Sit down and strategize to outlast your challenges."
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"May you can continue unhindered, by inviting immense clarity, prosperity and purpose - into your life."
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"Perhaps I shouldn't call it shit. That's a bit crude. I don't really despise Christianity or even the Roman Church, and certainly not the incontrovertible glory of the Middle Ages. What I do despise is the contemporary inclination to flop to the knees and crawl back into the past, to shy from what seem like impossible problems in order to bury the head, asshole aloft and twitching, in the Sands of Time. Cowardice, I calls it. Illusion-seeking. Womb-crawling. And treason. Desertion in the face of the enemy.Strong words indeed. But I've always been rather a blunt, tough, plain-spoken type . . ."
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"Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists. We should have cheered their efforts. Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this reticence we hurt ourselves."
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"Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages."
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"I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry."
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"Have you ever noticed that fear affects your physical mind and body?"
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"What was desire anyway, when examined in the clear light of day? Was it the way a woman searched for her clothes in the morning, or the manner in which a man might watch her sit before the mirror and comb her hair? Was it a pale November dawn, when ice formed on windowpanes and crows called from the bare black trees? Or was it the way a person might yield to the night, setting forth on a path so unexpected that daylight would never again be completely clear?"
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"We attract what is happening in our lives."
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"Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem."
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"But it is only people who have plenty of money who can despise it. To the rest of us it is important. It can at least put food in our stomachs clothes on our backs, and it can at least feed our dreams."
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"We aren't afraid of what we can explain. But the truth is stranger than an aimless road, it always was. The world was full of blinding mysteries, and I was blind to truth of what they were. There were things about the world I couldn't understand."
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"Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary."
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