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"She seemed to be a nice person, too, instead of a homicidal bitch like his former wife. Otherwise, the world should fear. When Mencheres fell for a woman, he fell hard. If Kira asked for her own continent as a birthday present, Mencheres would probably have one conquered for her before she blew out her candles."
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"Let us work joyfully while we have the strength."
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"The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth."
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"The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government."
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"He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend."
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"People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all."
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"The apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and why we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love."
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"I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table."
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"God's plan will never look easy when you are sitting in hell. KEEP MOVING!"
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"Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul."
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"She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing, this machine for gripping, this fleshy spider on the end of her arm, came to be hers, entirely at her command. Or did it have some little life of its own? She bent her finger and straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking. If she could only find herself at the crest, she thought, she might find the secret of herself, that part of her that was really in charge."
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"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
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"You must love and respect yourself enough to never be a victim under any circumstance."
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"Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans."
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"Money can take you many places, but imagination can take you anywhere."
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"Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it."
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"Ever since the Enlightenment era in the 17th and 18th Centuries - which, among other things, gave birth to the U.S. Constitution and the de facto motto E Pluribus Unum (out of the many, one) - interfaith tolerance has been sown into the fabric of Western society. The rules of one religion are not made into law for all citizens because of a simple social agreement. For you to believe what you want, you must allow me to do the same, even if we disagree."
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"When building your team look for people who are disciplined even before they came to the Lord."
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"Amador and Bianca have a great life that I'm only a little jealous of. They have two kids they bring to see me. His daughter, Ashlee, is almost five now. She has asked me to marry her when I get out. It feels kind of weird since she calls me Uncle Reyes and incest is frowned upon, but who am I to argue with true love?"
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"A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms."
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"Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you're not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut - grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don't have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out."
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"To gain wisdom, try to understand with love."
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"You are wrong about that, you know, Dr. Andersen replied calmly. This, right here - us talking, sitting in this overlit room, a bunch of shrinks watching us through the tinted windows - this is the dream. The peace you felt before, that is reality. It is the I. The only part of existence that does not change, that cannot change, that will not change. You may not be ready to understand this quite yet, but if you continue meditating, you will."
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"Don't ever perceive other people's success as your own failure."
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"It's not the lies he tells, it's the seductive way in which he persuades you they are not true."
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"You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life."
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"When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, of a family line, connection. All around him, men were walking silently with their thoughts, reforming their lives, making resolutions. If I ever get out of this lot... They could never be counted, the dreamed-up children, mentally conceived on the walk into Dunkirk, and later made flesh."
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"Let go of what was and embrace what to be."
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"I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination."
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"We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased."
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"The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce."
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"There is no more profitable investment than investing in yourself. It is the best investment you can make, you can never go wrong with it. It is the true way to improve yourself to be the best version of you and lets you be able to best serve those around you."
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"A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through."
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"It seemed to me, watching, that if you were dextrous enough to gift-wrap an independent-minded amphibian, you could just about manage a condom."
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