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"Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves."
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"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."
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"Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it."
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"Vincent made his way closer to the group and shuffled his feet while he watched them embrace. Breccan's head remained buried in the huddle while his large hand reached out, grabbed Vincent's good wing, and pulled the archangel into the fold."
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"Well-intentioned but ill-informed actions usually compromise quality."
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"There is not much left to see in this world if one sees her once."
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"I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer."
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"How is it you can talk so nicely?' Alice said, hoping to get it into a better temper by a compliment. 'I've been in many gardens before, but none of the flowers could talk.''Put your hand down, and feel the ground,' said the Tiger-lily. 'Then you'll know why.'Alice did so. 'It's very hard,' she said, 'but I don't see what that has to do with it.''In most gardens,' the Tiger-lily said, 'they make the beds too soft - so that the flowers are always asleep."
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"It is better work without being paid to fulfill a divine purpose than to be rich without any fulfillment."
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"I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances."
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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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"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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"You need to be my wife to win with me."
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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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"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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"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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"Today this courtyard was filled with great warriors. What is more? But it was not filled with great men who have the heart to rule a kingdom. Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead."
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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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"The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit."
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"What am I searching for? Maybe its the beliefs I had as a child, that the world is a nice place, that people are genuinely who they say they are, that life is not simply what it is, where the sun shines and the stars glitter for me. Where am I going? I do not know but maybe I am just searching for those beliefs that lead to a happy ending..."
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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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"My library is an archive of longings."
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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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"It's amazing how just dressing differently can affect your influence; dress like a beggar and your assumed poverty gains you looks of contempt; dress in gold-lined robes and people are more willing to accommodate you; sport armour and you look strong, dutiful, and prepared."
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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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"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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"Being together does not always mean happy."
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"You're causing the world to spin again, Keirah,' Wharick teased about her druid gift with nature. 'You out of control? Do you need something to settle you down? he asked."
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