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Quotes by Author
"When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time."
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"Be the positive impact on someone's life."
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"You're not in this alone anymore. I'm not going anywhere, and if you'll let me, I've got broad shoulders for you to lean on whenever you need me."
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"When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?"
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"Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit."
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"He is wearing a rugby shirt with numbers and a little man on a horse on his chest. Kent has told Elsa that this sort of shirt costs more than a thousand kronor, and Granny always used to say that those sorts of shirts were a good thing, because the horse functioned as a sort of manufacturer's warning that the shirt was highly likely to be transporting a muppet."
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"Think about the people you love, appreciate, and admire. If today was the last day you could speak with them. What would you say. and what are you waiting for?"
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"The human heart is deeply nuanced who can know it? Taming the heart involves trust. What do you trust in? The material world has less substance than most people realize. We are made of stuff but this stuff is something that cannot be regarded as real. In a very real sense, you are a collection of your choices."
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"Mind needs more than 3D perception to be able to see edge of the universe."
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"Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught - and it is a disgrace that you aren't - that these men and women were radicals for liberty; that they had a vision of equality that was a slap in the face of what the rest of their world understood to be the unchanging, God-given order of nations; and that they were willing to die to make that desperate vision into a reality for people like us, whom they would never live to see."
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"God has given everything an appointed time."
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"There is no one more capable of helping you than yourself."
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"A happy mind is also a beautiful universal mind."
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"I put the word 'diagnosis' in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a 'diagnosis' led to a 'cure,' or in fact to any outcome other than a confirmed, and therefore an enforced, debility."
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"Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are."
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"Richard, marked for misery and defeat, acknowledged that power which sentiment possesses to exalt us-to convince us that our minds, endowed with a soaring, restless aspiration, can find no repose on earth except in love."
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"Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit."
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"When Thoreau considered 'where I live and what I live for,' he tied together location and values. Where we live doesn't just change how we live; it informs who we become. Most recently, technology promises us lives on the screen. What values, Thoreau would ask, follow from this new location? Immersed in simulation, where do we live, and what do we live for?"
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"Walk a mile in your customers' stilettos or loafers. Try to understand where they are in the moment."
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"The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn't mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life, and we don't have to feel it's happening because we personally made the wrong move. In reality, however, when we feel suffering, we think that something is wrong. As long as we're addicted to hope, we feel that we can tone our experience down or liven it up or change it somehow, and we continue to suffer a lot."
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"Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character."
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"Some of us wear our hearts. Some of us carry them."
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"Why use a sledgehammer when a butterfly net will suffice?"
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"Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink some wine and let us laugh for a while. If ye be foe, continue on your merry way and may our paths never cross again."
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"Hoyt was by himself right under one of the portable lights rigged up for the occasion. He had his hands thrust in his pockets, and he looked more serious than I'd ever seen him. There was something strange about the sight, and after a second I figured out why.It was one of the few times I'd ever seen Hoyt alone."
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"We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea."
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"There is no failure in life, there are only those who don`t know how to succeed."
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"She did not care where he was or how she was going to find him, all she knew is the reward would be worth it...however, alive, kicking and raring to go would be preferable."
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"Somebody is observing my writings, I know that.That's one reason why I keep reading and writing."
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"Be daring and determined. There is nothing to lose in this life."
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