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Quotes by Author
"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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"Brambleclaw dipped his head. 'The battle is won, he growled. 'The clearing is ours. Do you concede or shall we fight for it again?Blackstar flashed a look of burning hatred over his shoulder. 'Take it, he hissed. 'It was never worth the blood that has been spilled here today."
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"If you don't believe others can end your suffering, why believe they can end your happiness?"
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"She would be taking the company jet to fly to Los Angeles to visit with the Light Fae Queen, Tatiana, for a week. The diplomatic deal stated that each of the seven U.S. demesne leaders was supposed to send a family member to another demesne to visit for a week to foster good will and peace among the desmesnes'. The whole concept came from a Medieval practice of nobles sending their children to live in other nobles' households as hostages."
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"Everyone is doing the best they can with what they know, and we are all here to learn and grow."
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"You may be born thousands of years from now, but over the boundaries of time I am sending you my love and wishing you a joyful and wonderful life."
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"When you are in action it is very difficult to get a bird's eye view of your own performance! Find some time to introspect."
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"The most important and uniquely glorious element of Buddha's character was that, he did not compel his pupils to be slaves either to his teachings or to himself, but like a conscientious human, demanded from his followers to accept his words not merely out of regard for him but after subjecting them to a thorough examination. And this is where Buddha stands out from the crowd of self-proclaimed prophets."
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"Discouragement is root of distress."
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"All of us share conscious recognition of our individual self. Each of us is more than a product of our conscious thoughts. The dictation of our unconscious mind also affects our behavior. The unconsciousness cogitates upon problems that are too harsh to submit to conscious resolution. The unconscious mind frequently directs us to take action that a rational, conscious mind would eschew. Resembling a two-sided coin, both our conscious and unconscious minds contribute to our thought processes. Collaborative thoughts lead to action, and repeated actions result in the development of behavior patterns, and ingrained behavior patterns lead to a sense of identity."
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"Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone."
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"Every time you speak, you are using your voice to connect with others, whether it is in-person, on the phone, or in a recorded message."
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"From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people."
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"Life is great. Life is amazing. Observe the beauty in everything you do."
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"What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue."
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"I've witnessed, incognito, the gradual collapse of my life, the slow foundering of all I wanted to be. I can say, with a truth that needs no flowers to show it's dead, that there's nothing I've wanted - and nothing in which I've placed, even for a moment, the dream of only that moment - that hasn't disintegrated below my windows like a clod of dirt that resembled stone until it fell from a flowerpot on a high balcony. It would even seem that Fate has always tried to make me love or want things just so that it could show me, on the very next day, that I didn't have and could never have them."
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"Liberate yourself from any mental captivity."
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"A great teacher is the architect of a great future."
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"When you re lazy, you find lots of interesting excuses."
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"Don't tell me I'm 'too tall' just because my height happens to threaten your rather fragile sense of masculinity. The fact that men cannot look down upon women who are taller than them is the very reason that many men find tall women so intimidating."
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"There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences."
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"The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else."
Duty,
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"Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine."
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"Today what was impossible is made possible and the rest is history."
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"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."
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"We see the world not as it is, but as we are."
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"Every thought, every action, every statement should have meaning."
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"When you are saying "I", it is actually the billions of neurons in your brain collectively expressing their functional existence."
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