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"On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray."
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"Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."
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"When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness."
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"When one becomes accustomed to 'companionship' without demands, life with people may seem overwhelming. Dependence on a person is risky but it also opens us to deeply knowing another."
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"What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want."
Want,
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"I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm, blond wood, piled with spines of every color. Staff picks were arranged on tables, glossy covers reflecting the light back at me. Behind the little cubby where the cashier sat, ignoring us, stairs covered with rich burgundy carpet led up to the worlds unknown. 'I could just live here,' I said."
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"Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacing are swung--are scarcely perceptible; momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life to another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust."
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"There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination."
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"The Hammer was a hard man, a smart man too, and he took pride in always having a plan 'b'. For those troubling occasions when plan 'b' didn't work, he would strive to also have a plan 'c' in place. In short, he was the kind of man who always had something up his sleeve besides his funny bone. The pilot, his trusted second man gave him a worried look. "What do we do now?"
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"A hybrid of centralization and decentralization is counter-balance of delivering effective IT capabilities."
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"I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes."
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"There are consequence every action, whether evil or good."
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"We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad."
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"You can't be 'it for everyone. In fact, if you try to please everyone, you will please no one, especially yourself."
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"Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that."
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"But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand."
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"But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off."
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"That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end."
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"Autograph your life with a signature of excellence."
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"Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones."
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"We don't have the luxury to say that, there is no hope for reform in Islam, because by saying this, we would be disavowing the entire peace-loving Muslim population of the world. We cannot leave our Muslim sisters and brothers behind to be oppressed by their own priestly tyrants, while the rest of the world keeps progressing with an open mind. The entire civilized society of the world, must put their heart and soul to get Islam liberated from the shackles of fundamentalism. Conscience must triumph over orthodox barbarianism, otherwise there would be no hope for the progress and wellbeing of humanity as a truly wise species."
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"Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutiny upon our neighbors instead of upon ourselves. We judge in order not to be judged. We uphold the law, because it is easier than to defy it. We are all lawbreakers, all criminals, all murderers, at heart. It is not our business to get after the murderers, but to get after the murderer which exists in each and every one of us. And I mean by murder the supreme kind which consists in murdering the spirit."
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"Your success lies behind your choices... To get there, you must choose it and drive your dreams in that chosen direction!"
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"There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander."
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"A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."
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"I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child."
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"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea."
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"For long-term true success we mush rethink and change our mindset from only valuing 'happiness' to include Well-being as the foundation."
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"The brain is the coast of many great monuments. Your ability to exploit the power of your brain is what makes you a leader. Leadership emerges from a positive mindset!"
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"I believe in the importance of learning from what has been discovered before. And in how precious health is, and how hard I must work to preserve it in all my Clanmates. The fact that the world of signs, omens, and dreams that have hidden meanings is closed to me doesn't feel like something is missing, Mistystar. I respect what you believe. You must respect what matters to me."
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"If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He's going to ask you what you bought."
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"The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become."
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