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Quotes by Author
"Your thoughts are transparent."
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"The realest of cats love with all of their being..."
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"Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave."
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"If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all."
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"A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time."
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"Another factor that seems to me to be equally important is the great myth and rationale of 'the modern,' that it places dynamite at the foot of old error and levels its shrines and monuments. Contempt for the past surely accounts for a consistent failure to consult it."
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"Feeling like, life has been so unfair to me, but what can I say except, 'I'm still here.' So I'm determined to make the best out of it, take every opportunity as a blessing, and live the rest of my life to the fullest."
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"Let's imagine a running washing machine. Let's imagine the dirty clothes in the machine and how the liquid detergent is getting the dirt out of clothes and draining it to the waste outlet. Now imagine brain surrounded by a large pool of cleaning fluid called CSF (cerebrospinal fluid). Imagine CSF pulling the wastes from inside the brain and draining it into the blood, which routes it to the waste outlets. CSF clears waste many times faster in sleeping brain than in the waking brain."
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"Sitting and looking at obstacles gives you nothing but dark circles. Stride for solutions."
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"Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering."
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"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
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"I'm sorry Penelope." "Don't waste my time with sorries,Simon.If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other's toes,we'll never have time to be friends."
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"You have business and pleasure to attend to. As an expert in both, allow me to advise you to put them aside for the next ten minutes. Why? "Because the world is about to transform, and you will want to be able to say you saw it happen. The axes of our little universe are about to flip, and you'll want to get your magboots set."
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"The game seemed to be speeding up, building on itself. Right around the deaths of Tess and Selena, I'd met the Sun.Were we spinning to an end?"
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"It's a fool who thinks that having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fishheads I've ever heard. You have a responsibility, not only to a person but also to a spirit because that's what a child is. A pissing, crying, yawning, giggling, laughing package of spirit that is looking for you to take the lead. It's a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit."
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"It's easy to be brave when everything is going your way. When the going gets tough, it takes courage to follow the path you believe in."
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"The more you keep your religious beliefs concealed from others, the lesser religious conflicts occur in the society."
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"Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind."
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"Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended."
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"Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace and a beauty that no artifice could compete with and that he found restorative."
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"You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires."
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"I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either."
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"Remind yourself of how awesome you are by celebrating your experiences and moments."
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"Man is now a new animal, a new and different animal; he can jump a hundred miles, see through brick walls, bombard atoms, analyse the stars, set about his business with the strength of a million horses. And so forth and so on. Yes. Yes. But all the same he goes on behaving like the weak little needy ape he used to be. He grabs, snarls, quarrels, fears, stampedes, and plays in his immense powder magazine until he seems likely to blow up the whole damned show."
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"I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in other media like TV, opera, theatre, and even in video games! I relish when dark and compelling characters compete for our protagonist's heart. The doubts, the uncertainty - the jealousy! - can be breathtaking."
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"When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks."
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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
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"Pay it forward generates more value than tit for tat."
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"MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT."
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"Unless you realize yourself beyond the identity of the mind, you cannot become free from life."
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"But, chiquita, you must understand that while you are here, I expect you to come to me and share your fears. Even if I am the one causing them."
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"Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity."
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"During the war some of the country's sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards."
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"A sincere decision to make is to refuse to give up until the society experiences the defeat of every form of injustice and ungodliness."
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"All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!"
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