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Quotes by Author
"I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody."
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"It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life."
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"Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?"
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"Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts."
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"You become a man when you give your family the best of who you are."
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"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt."
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"Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank."
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"Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long."
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"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."
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"A husband is very much like a house or a horse."
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"I don't have to be the smartest person in the room, I just have to be in the room."
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"I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to."
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"Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity."
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"When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it."
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"Expect nothing, be amazed by everything."
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"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."
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"Many people have the confused idea that peace will happen when all the colors in the palette are the same. The actuality of peace is accepting each color's differences and seeing the beauty each possesses."
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"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."
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"In his book, How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie encourages you to greet people with "animation and enthusiasm." This form of kinesthetic responsiveness provides a splendid example of how impactful your gestures can be while responding to others. Whether it be running up to an old friend you have not seen in a while or standing up to greet a business associate when he approaches your table, being kinesthetically responsive is an impactful way to gesture your level of interest, engagement, and enthusiasm."
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"One can have a wit, but not a witless."
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"Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky."
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"Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other's company."
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"I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane."
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"She was always the woman he didn't want to lose."
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"The way I see it, our natural human instinct is to fight or flee that which we perceive to be dangerous. Although this mechanism evolved to protect us, it serves as the single greatest limiting process to our growth. To put this process in perspective and not let it rule my life, Iexpect the unexpected;make the unfamiliar familiar;make the unknown known;make the uncomfortable comfortable;believe the unbelievable."
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"And I submit to you, that science, scientific discovery, especially cosmic discovery, does not become mainstream until the artist embraces the fruits of those discoveries."
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"Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong."
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"There is always a need to understand that others don't think the way that you do."
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"Fear and paranoia create many of our worldly struggles. We get something in our minds and our distorted perception sculpts the reality of what we see. Even though what we see isn't really there, we tend to act as if it is. We then begin to put people and things into boxes, labeling them, and limiting them due to our fears."
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"Even the wheel of fortune can run over you."
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"There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time."
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