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Quotes by Author
"If you're religious, it gives you a perspective."
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"Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort."
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"You cannot become great by working for salary."
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"I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true."
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"One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself."
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"When you sever ties with the unit purely for self-serving intentions, you are likely to find yourself stranded and struggling to survive; fighting to keep your head above water. What's more, there is no one to save you because you've turned your back on your comrades and snubbed your support system."
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"I sit under the weeping willow to watch the hanged man divine his truth."
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"We can always be sure of one thing-that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments."
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"Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating."
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"Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives."
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"Proper posture conveys that you are ready to take command and master new situations. When you project this level of confidence, you will instill confidence in others."
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"What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?"
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"A smile is the dance of your soul."
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"If your will is your deepest pure desires, then it will manifest in its own due time."
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"Our dedication to charity guides our purpose. The love of laughter inspires our vision. The generous support of supporters, friends and fans along with the finest businesses in Houston and throughout America helps drive our mission. Thank you to those who generously donate to one or all of the charities Sol-Caritas supports."
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"Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush."
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"Are all firefighters as hot as you?"
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"You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality."
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"You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it - you are born to build it."
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"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him."
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"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
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"Be yourself, be brave."
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"Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection."
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"We fall, we fall together."
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"It was so quiet, I could hear my own breathing, loud in my ears. Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."
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"You and your sister will be going with us this day, and that is not up for discussion.' He moved closer. 'Nor will it be an argument.' He stepped even closer and leaned his head slightly downward, his lips near her face. 'If you have a problem with that, little girl,' he commented at her display of stubbornness, 'then I will be more than happy to have Darius put you over his shoulder and carry you out of here. Either way, you will do as you are told, and behave yourself."
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"Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."
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"It is much easier to become a father than to be one."
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"The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better."
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"Every voyage is a new glorious experience."
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"To be motivated by divine love is to see your promise land as a platform to share the love of God with others."
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"My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea."
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"Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going."
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