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Quotes by Author
"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."
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"Geraldine keeps her eyes trained on him as she slowly reaches into her purse, wrapping her fingers around her gun. “Callo, I'm so sorry that your life ended up this way,” she sighs as she gets out of her side of the car, her feet burning from the cold as her high heels sink into the fallen snow. “Aren't you scared?”
"I'm you, Geraldine— I fell into the same trap as you, anyway,” Callo answers. His large eyes are shining with tears, but he doesn't seem afraid in the least. “The dead don't feel anything, you know— not even guilt or regret. So, what is there to be afraid of?”
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"Money comes to those who know what to do with it."
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"[His] leaving had stabbed her heart. This organ was not inclined to forgive her for vulnerability."
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"Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft."
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"Milk for infant as liquor for adult."
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"Her hair was full of lights."
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"Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves."
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"Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world."
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"One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into."
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"Righteousness gives a person the right to God's protection."
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"Godliness has already come in human flesh to rescue humanity from its own ungodliness."
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"When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top."
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"When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along; and when they went they left a calm behind which was like the deep sleep which follows an orgy."
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"Despite our human intelligence, we are very much like our friends in the wild; the world we live in is a survival of the fittest. But to this I say, let the fittest survive! Survival is overrated. We're alive; we die. How long we survive for is of little significance. Our true significance lies not in the endless comparing of ourselves to one another, trying to see who is the fittest, using scales of evaluation and meaning that differ in the heart and mind of every individual; no - it lies in our deeds alone with the time we have."
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"When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror."
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"What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it."
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"If you want to be watched by governments, all you have to do is tell people that you research radiation."
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"Happiness should never be your ultimate goal as you can experience it everyday, it's a matter of choice."
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"While all the universe and my family are still sleeping, I will walk among the red and blue twinkle-lights of the living room, to sit and gaze upon the pretty white angel atop the tree and say silent prayers, remembering what was good in the world and why I was brought here to remember."
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"A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist."
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"I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place."
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"There are few things more powerful than people united."
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"Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions."
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"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools."
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"She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape."
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"God gave us his word of salvation, for us to become the agents of His principles and the doers of His will, His judgment on earth."
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"Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know."
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"Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built."
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"What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home."
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"Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father."
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"There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end."
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"Rather than the kind of change that takes what we already have and augments it, like power to our cars and speed to our computers, I believe the kind of change we need now is a change of direction."
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"Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life."
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"To the representatives of theoretical Islam, i.e. Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Buddhists and all other humans who are not Muslims, are not just object of extreme detestation, they are, at the worst, lesser humans of false religions. This is not religion my friend. This is primitiveness at its worst."
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