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"Okay, I've lied to him. But you saw how jealous he gets. It makes me feel like I have to. And I shouldn't defend my right to be friends with another guy."
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"I'm a starving child trying to stuff my stomach, gorging my senses on the decadence of these moments as if I'll wake up in the morning and realize I'm still sweeping cinders for my stepmother.But then Adam's lips press against my head and my worries put on a fancy dress and pretend to be something else for a while."
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"Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. Utilize your special skills to begin your own work."
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"So in actual fact every human being is equally wealthy according to God's divine Providence."
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"He was obsessed with obituaries. She'd never read them before, he couldn't believe it, to him it was like someone who'd never read the funnies...Michael always wanted to know what they died of - accidental gunshot wounds, overdose, cancer. 'Was it suicide?' That's what he really wanted to know."
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"A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy."
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"In order to answer the question "Where am I going?" one needs to work for self-improvement, to possess decisiveness, to have a will to win and dedication to achieve the goal at all cost."
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"My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time."
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"I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home."
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"She had believed the land was her enemy and she struggled against it but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it to belong to it to fit into its seasons and its ways."
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"Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited."
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"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."
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"One of the hallmarks of great teachers is that they rejoice when their students surpass them. Encouraging an atmosphere of questioning and inviting people to grow within your classroom isn't necessarily easy, which must explain why people who want to create cults or die hard followers discourage questioning in general. They would rather have people reciting their dogma than asking hard questions."
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"Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals."
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"Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's concern is what is owed to the other, not what is owed to himself."
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"We're on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what's more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced-or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?"
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"Dreams are the poetry of life to be written with love and actions."
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"I love you," I whisper. "I love you exactly as you are."
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"Whatever would give you the idea that I'm her damn brother?"
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"Sometimes you want to cry but the tears deceive you, but at other, you just want to hold the tears but they disobey you."
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"Maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken."
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"All I've ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I've ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching.I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness."
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"We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence."
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"Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you."
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"Life challenges are unavoidable. We only need to develop new strategies overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph."
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"Words make known. But we live in the unknown."
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"Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited."
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"All I could think as he was speaking was that, if he touched me at all, all the miles I'd walked, the pain I'd felt, the beauty I'd drunken like milk, like good wine making me happy, the four million steps I'd taken, would all add up to nothing. They'd be stolen. They'd vanish like the teeth children lose when they get hit. Only after the blood was washed away would I see that they were gone."
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"I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned."
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"We all have a certain knowledge about how the universe works. And when someone comes along and challenges that knowledge, we don't know how to deal with it. We aren't hardwired that way. It's difficult to question everything you've ever thought to be true. So, like I said, it's not your fault. You can believe me or not, but whichever you choose, you're the one who has to deal with the consequences. So make your decision wisely, grasshopper."
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"There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it."
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"God and government can work together."
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"While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope."
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"Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind."
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"Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation."
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"Invest your life into what you were born to do. Make every minute of your life count. Redeem every minute of your life and convert it into greatness."
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"For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories."
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"Being together does not always mean happy."
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"Self - love is beginning but others - love is the end. Self - love is important but insufficient."
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"Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry."
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