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Quotes by Author
"The churches should be responsible for the faulty value system we now see in our society."
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"If you want an incredibly passionate, happy, ALIVE business don't overcomplicate things. Once all is said and done, the foundational elements of a successful business are very simple: respect, service, value and sales. Comparatively, everything else is froth."
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"Trademark yourself with the mark of excellence."
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"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
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"And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action."
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"We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields."
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"The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others."
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"Everyday when you wake-up, say to yourself: 'Everyday, in everyway, I only get better, better and better!'"
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"Remember, however bad things might be right now, this moment will pass and your life will continue to be a good one."
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"The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? he said. Always, she said. OK then, he said."
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"Any other iron on you? he asked impatiently.'Just my tongue stud.His look was a mixture of curiosity and horror.'I'm kidding, you idiot. Let's go."
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"Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left."
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"If it had been a color, it might have been green. If it had touched her ears, it might have sounded rhythmic, like the creak of a rocking chair or drone of a bee. If it had a scent, it might have been sweet and drowsy, like fresh pine on the fire."
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"Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society."
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"Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate."
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"Don't let cycles of violent crimes, uncontrollable, rising cases of bloody impunity, evil puppets in a crippled judiciary, marionettes in a corrupted legislative system manipulated by a fascist executive system and its annihilative corruption be the incurable epidemics of the disintegration of the environmental, emotional, social, intellectual, physical, professional, occupational, moral and ethical destruction of your homeland."
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"How ya doing? Gabby's face came into view, and she grinned down at me. She'd stopped doing her healing thing, and the pain rushed in.'I'm just peachy, I quipped, throat scratchy. 'Only hurts when I breathe or blink or exist, if I'm being honest."
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"When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it."
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"Friends, since when has irresponsibility become a Nigerian factor?"
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"People living without God dies first spiritually and then physically."
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"It did not occur to me to call a doctor, because I knew none, and although it did occur to me to call the desk and ask that the air conditioner be turned off, I never called, because I did not know how much to tip whoever might come-was anyone ever so young?"
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"Let the love grow. Your mistake would be to rush it. Never allowing the seeds you've planted to grow, is all you'll be doing. Everything takes time. Nothing blooms overnight. If you want that man to stay in your life you must be the woman in the relationship. Men if you want that woman to stay, you must be the man in the relationship. Nothing just comes to you. If you want it, you have to try and even sacrifice. No pain, no gain. That's life, whether you accept it or not it's going to always stay the same."
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"The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you."
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"A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer."
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"An undiscovered genius has no value in the marketplace."
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"Did you once have a grand plan which has become obsolete and no longer serves you? If there are areas in your life which must change to help you create better results, a redesign may be in order. Consider going back to the 'drawing board' to deconstruct what isn't working and start anew."
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"Personally, I believe 'Young Adult to be an arbitrary title that means the book 'Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who's not quite an adult/Isn't really boring."
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"Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans."
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"You should've mentioned you were bringing a beautiful woman. I would've combed my hair."
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"She who saves a single soul, saves the universe."
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"In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long."
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"I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation."
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"Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake."
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"I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their own) status in the world: the Stanford degree....Those of us less inclined to compliment ourselves on our parenting skills, in other words most of us, recite rosaries of our failures, our neglects, our derelictions and delinquencies."
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"In other words, we are only proud of being more successful, more intelligent or more good-looking than the next person, and we are in the presence of someone who is more successful, intelligent and good-looking than we are, we lose all pleasure in what we had. That is because we really had no pleasure in it. We were proud of it."
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"I thought you were mad at me.""I am.""Well, I make it a rule never to have sex with anyone who's mad at me."He arched a brow. "It's a wonder you've ever had sex at all."
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"They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened."
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