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Quotes by Author
"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."
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"Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent."
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"They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability."
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"Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'."
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"Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life."
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"Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, 'Is this my life?', remember: It's not. Everyone's got a bright-and-shiny, even if it's hard to find sometimes."
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"Contentment should not be confused with smugness. Contentment is being happy despite of the successes and failures."
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"An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court."
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"The things you should value most in this life are NOT things."
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"Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian's mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to hear its safe sounds."
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"This method enabled me to expand my territory and create a strong network of loyal customers for referrals and repeat business. Make active listening a deliberate part of your business plan and success strategy. You will not only grow your business, but also make wonderful friends along the way."
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"Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest, that anger is much less driven by the reality of their actions and far more fueled by the realization that everything I am is everything that I hate in them."
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"Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles."
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"After listening and getting to know more about you. Also, feeling a deep connection between us that goes beyond physical attraction. I'm beginning to feel for, so much more than the friendship that I waited to grow with you. I'm not going to try and rush things. However, I don't want to wait until it's to late."
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"Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice."
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"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace."
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"Sometimes you have to risk or give up some of your financial wealth to have a richer life."
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"You need to think about all that, Sam, Dekka said. "You're the leader, after all."Not anymore, he said.Dekka laughed. She stood up and stretched. "Sam: you're still the leader. You're always going to be the leader. It's not something you choose: it's something you are."
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"If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government."
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"We all understand the value of sacrifice, even if that only involves setting aside dessert so as to lose weight, or putting money in the bank so as to later buy a house. Progress or achievement in any arena requires choices that often oppose what one feels like doing. The trick in truly succeeding with this in the long run is locating enough depth of feeling that the experience of conflicting desires dissolves. For that to happen, one has to learn how to think emotionally and physiologically."
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"A master like Raoul looks for a woman whose need to serve and submit matches his need to protect and take command."
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"By establishing a strategic online presence through your website, social media, keywords, meta tags, and Google AdWords, the world may discover your expertise and "beat a path to your door."
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"Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that belief - that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices."
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"Rune never said anything about it. But to anyone who had known him a long time, it was as if he grew a few centimetres shorter in the years that followed. As if he sort of crumpled with a deep sigh and never really breathed properly again."
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"I don't like it when I outweigh my men."
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"Often what feels like the end of the world is really a challenging pathway to a far better place."
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"A smile is the expression of ecstasy of life."
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"WINTER SPOILER - KINDA IDRKCinder looked away. Though so much had changed between them since that night, it still felt like an ice pick in her heart when she remembered the way he'd looked at her, and his horrified words: You're even more painful to look at than she is."
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"True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism."
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"Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change."
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"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
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"People and organisations should want to be associated with you as a brand. A sign of a depleted and irrelevant brand is unwillingness of your market or peers to associate with you."
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"Motivation overcomes self-limitations."
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"It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good."
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"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."
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"I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books."
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"Who can tell when troubles may come?"
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