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Quotes by Author
"Knowledge is a light that brightens the mind, not a burden."
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"You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go."
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"Why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much- Mark Twain ...that's why ..."
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"The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They're lost in the shadows of the moon."
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"The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates."
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"When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling of universal love penetrated her, she found no voice that replied so well to hers as the gentle singing of the pines under the air of noon, and the soft murmurs of the breeze that scattered her hair and freshened her cheek, and the dashing of the waters that has no beginning or end."
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"Time waits for no one so you shouldn't either. Do whatever it is that you can do RIGHT NOW that requires no external approval, acceptance or permission and is aligned with your life purpose. ....Haven't discovered your life purpose yet? No problem! Do what you love that is effortless, creative and helps others along the way. (That's one in the same thing after all. )"
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"If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine."
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"St. Clair gets a crush on Anna. He's torn between her and Ellie, and he spends so much time running between them that he hardly has time left for Josh. And the more time that Josh spends alone, the more he realizes how alone he actually is. All of his friends will be gone the next year. Josh grows increasingly antagonistic toward school, which makes Rashmi increasingly antagonistic toward him, which makes him increasingly antagonistic toward her. And she's upset because Elie dropped her as a friend, and Meredith is upset because now St. Clair likes two girls who aren't her, and Anna is upset because St. Clair is leading her on, and then St. Clair's mom gets cancer. It's a freaking soap opera."
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"If you aren't diligently working towards changing something that bothers you, you rescind your right to complain about it."
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"Intelligent efforts are successful."
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"When do you become a man? Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not."
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"The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important."
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"If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt."
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"Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them."
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"Love makes you want to be a better man-right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are."
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"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
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"It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement."
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"Mirroring provides social cues through body language and behavior which enable us to develop more empathy and understanding for others."
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"Our subconscious mind stores all our negative beliefs, complexes and behavioral patterns."
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"Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie."
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"If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party."
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"Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives."
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"I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be."
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"I want to be the 'WHY' behind your happiness."
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"Having confronted the world with little except a battered typewriter and a certain resilience, he can now take posthumous credit for having got the three great questions of the 20th century essentially 'right.' Orwell was an early and consistent foe of European imperialism, and foresaw the end of colonial rule. He was one of the first to volunteer to bear arms against fascism and Nazism in Spain. And, while he was soldiering in Catalonia, he saw through the biggest and most seductive lie of them all-the false promise of a radiant future offered by the intellectual underlings of Stalinism."
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"Stop looking at my mouth. His eyes darkened, as she saw his pupils dilate. He mouthed back, just as silently. 'What if I don't want to stop looking at your mouth?"
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"I can't. It's not possible. I'm not good enough ... - These are lies the demons of your past use to scare away the possibilities of the present."
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"I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh."
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"I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out."
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"Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change."
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"Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you."
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"When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come."
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"Personal growth was damn hard work. It also took a lot of time, so it was going to have to take a backseat for a while.Because right now, he had a battle to fight and Vampyre ass to kick."
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