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"I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong."
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"Critical thinking is a necessary and vital skill."
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"Whenever someone 'pretends' as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field..."
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"You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do."
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"Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it."
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"I wish there was a word more than 'love' itself to convey what I feel for you."
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"Sometimes a tragedy must happen to keep a soul on schedule. This is the reason for things that seem to have no reason. This is the reason that we cannot fathom when we are going through it.Perhaps I will get very sick. People wonder why cancer exists when it is just a clever method to teach people lessons about love and loss. It borrows time or steals it depending on the needs of Heaven. It is a vehicle to get us where we need to be. It calls us home because something needs us there."
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"Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening."
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"Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships."
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"Social media is just that - social."
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"Maybe I have never had the Christmas I remember, since we never remember the event itself but just the last time we revisited the memory. I have woven together a few dozen scraps (the Sears catalog, my father videoing everything we did, Christmas parties and visits with Santa) and pretended they amount to one perfect, cohesive moment, but I am as guilty as baby-boomers, who dictated unconsciously that all the songs they listened to in 1963 would be the timeless Christmas standards of today."
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"I learned to accept that everything happened in her time. When you live in the moment, it's easier to wait. When you trust and have faith, you just know that whatever it is will come when it will come. Your master will always bring everything to you at the perfect time."
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"It's the journey, not the destination, but that doesn't make sense until you get there."
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"But you don't have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt."You don't have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn't always out to get you."
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"So many things become beautiful when you really look."
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"He had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think."
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"Sometimes you just need to know when a fight is best saved for another day when the odds are more in your favour."
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"What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive."
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"Ransom really looked at the other man for the first time, shook his head, stared again."Holy hell, your eyes are like a fucking viper's. Venom raised an eyebrow."You have hair prettier than one of Astaad's concubines. Ransom gave the vampire the finger. Venom grinned."
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"To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.People today are in danger of drowning in information; but because they have been taught information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be.If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!"
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"The doctors agreed: He was going crazy...they didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father had thrown him into the deep end of the Y.M.C.A swimming pool when he was a little boy, and had then taken him to the rim of the Grand Canyon."
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"I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the completest, most highly organized system of prejudices and antagonisms in existence. Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church. It presents many faces towards the world, but everywhere it is systematic in its fight against freedom."
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"Many people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily."
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"In life you need either inspiration or desperation."
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"Fresh writing and an original twist on an old idea. As much as this term is hated in the industry, it doesn't make it any less true. High concept. Simply put, you take a universal concept, something that has been done a million times (because everything has been done a million times), and add a fresh twist to it. Something no one saw coming. But mostly fresh writing! Keep it clean, simple, and compelling."
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"The greatest teaching is restoration of mankind to divine love of God."
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"Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well."
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"Don't you want to know what cookies is a code word for?" "No! Good God, no!"
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"If you meditate or exercise, with the inward attention, the subtle world of thoughts, imagination, breathe, sensation and spiritual energy will get clear to you."
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"Well," Cinder finally grumbled. "I guess that was pretty fast thinking." A relieved grin filled up Thorne's face. "We're having another moment, aren't we?" "If by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, than I guess we are."
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"Matrimony and firefighting. They ain't for cowards."
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"The Artificial's speech pattern was an idiosyncratic mix of awkward and colloquial. It was unexpectedly endearing. "I just have good instincts. Mostly I love being in space. But you are not 'in' space. You are in your starship and your starship is in space. It is not so different than being on a planet. "Oh, Valkyrie, you have no idea. Tell me then."
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"Greed applied is prosperity realized."
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"Sometimes the walk to the doctors is a better cure than the medicine you receive."
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"A tractor beam from the Imperial ship locked onto the shuttle and in seconds it became apparent they were being hauled in. The tractor was inescapable, and they knew it. The shuttle's small yet potent engines struggled vainly against the irresistible pull. Inside, the Hammer and his men prepared to meet their fate."
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"You weren't born a quitter, and it's your sole responsibility to never turn yourself into one."
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