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"I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways."
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"You really can't follow a guru. You can't ask somebody to give The Reason, but you can find one for yourself; you decide what the meaning of your life is to be. People talk about the meaning of life; there is no meaning of life--there are lots of meanings of different lives, and you must decide what you want your own to be."
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"Do not work at Walmart expecting to receive your salary from Microsoft."
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"I've been told that there's a point in every soldier's life when he knows he's going to die. You expect it, of course, in every battle, every ambush, every enemy engagement. You are aware that this could be it. This could be the one that ends your life. But, there's a difference between being aware that you could die, and knowing beyond a doubt, when the situation is hopeless. New dragons dropped from the sky in a dark mass..."
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"Acknowledge and voice the positives LOUDER than the negatives."
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"You have no understanding of the warrior code at all. What you've done here proves it. You've risked the lives of young kits... by leaving them alone here. Anything could have happened to them. They could have been lost. They could have died. My kits could have died. But you didn't just betray me. You betrayed the entire Clan. You did all this... and you never considered how it would make any of us feel. The Clan is a family, Sol. A community. And you're incapable of thinking about anyone but yourself."
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"The phoenix must burn to emerge."
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"I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read."
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"You want to anchor the scene with physical details, but by and large it's better to use sensual details rather than overtly sexual ones."
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"I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness."
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"Make a difference in someones life everyday. It does make a difference. Everyone has the ability to make a difference. It doesn't take much to give someone encouragement. The wheel always comes full circle, and whatever we give out will always return to us. The most meaningful acts are often the ones we commit without prompting or expectations. We have such profound power when we lend an ear, a hand, or an act of kindness."
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"He was determined to save her, to be her hero, to give her a reason why the gods had seen fit to place him inside her visions. Gods, he wanted to rescue her. After all, she had rescued him; she had become his heroine a long time ago, before his death became imminent."
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"It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun."
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"That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy.'Pex was unrepentant. 'Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things.'But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror.'I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?'Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me."
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"But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story."
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"It seems like with you everything leads back to the subject of death.""Sure and show me the person's road that does not lead to death. we try to divert our attention, to pretend 'tisn't so, but the very air we breathe is vulture's breath. Please don't be insinuatin' your man is morbid. I dwell on death in order to defeat it."
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"I have earned my revenge on everyone who hurt me. My father, who tortured me every day - I crushed his chest and his heart. Teren, sick and twisted and mad - I took away his beloved just as he took away mine. Raffaele, who betrayed and manipulated me - I seized control of the prince he loves, and I made sure he watched his prince destroy in my name. And Violetta, darling, dearest sister who turned her back when I needed her the most. I cast her out. I finally said everything to her that I wanted to say. I have hurt back."
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"God, you're uptight. Did the aliens maybe forget to remove your anal probe?"
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"And feast on the dead, I thought with a shudder. As if he could read my thoughts, he pressed a hand to my shoulder. His fingers were long and white, splaying over my arm like a waxen spider. If the gesture was meant to comfort me, it failed."
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"Some marriages are made in heaven,Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart."
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"Laughter has got to be the single healthiest activity one can perform. Just think how healthy you would be if you could sincerely laugh at that which now oppresses you."
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"During difficult times, it's best to cut down on sweets like cookies, cake and candy. Satisfy your sweet tooth with fruit to help prevent blood sugar dips and spikes."
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"I hate winter. I've lived in Syracuse my whole life and I hate winter. It starts too early and ends too late. No one likes it."
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"Needless documentation hampers performance."
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"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."
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"God does not give money. He gives the power to get wealth."
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"While I was yearning for happiness I became happy."
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"A good friend is someone who is there for me when i'm glad or sad...who I can laugh madly with or cry badly with."
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"Loneliness ia a human condition"
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"100% commitment is required for any great achievement."
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"A daily practice of how you shall live in heaven, here on earth, is a good qualification plan to get to heaven."
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"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."
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"You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream."
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"Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives."
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"I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is."
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"Intimacy transcends the physical. It is a feeling of closeness that isn't about proximity, but of belonging. It is a beautiful emotional space in which two become one."
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"I don't dislike them, nor do I like them. I've never understood why one must love children simply because they are children. I don't love people because they are people; in fact, I rarely like any people at all. If a child is somehow deserving of admiration, I certainly won't deny it, but why hand it out like candy on Queen's Day?"
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"I don't like how he holds on to her and don't like how long he's holding. That doesn't look like brotherly love to me. I stare at his girl. Why is she so damned happy to see her guy hugging someone else?"
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