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Quotes by Author
"Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles."
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"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
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"Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious."
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"I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. It's like everyone else has their entire future mapped out except for me."
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"There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6."
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"I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales."
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"Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs."
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"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."
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"Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don't want to be a slave to external powers."
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"I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen everyday. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen."
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"It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World."
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"Why worry about your problem when all it calls for is an effective solution?"
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"I made my name. What does this mean? It means a man has overcame the obstacles, hassles and roadblocks."
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"Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it."
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"It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness."
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"What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living."
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"Prioritize activities under the captions "important" and "urgent". Do the urgent things first and the important things later."
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"No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them."
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"Women can enter (...) negotiations with the knowledge that showing concern for the common good, even as they negotiate for themselves, will strengthen their position."
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"Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving."
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"All religions are "revealed" and "inspired". After all nothing happens without the "will" of god."
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"Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you'll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty."
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"Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others."
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"Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence."
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"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet."
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"A good man measures his life not in the number of his years but in the quality of his friends."
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"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection."
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"Light and flow is what shifts the world's vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition."
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"If your actions don't live up to your words, you have nothing to say."
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"In some ways, we are traveling in time now. We just happened to be prisoners of the present in the eternal transition from the past to the future."
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"First rule of motherhood, dearie: men are screw-ups. Learn it now and you'll be a whole lot happier."
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"There isn't much a pan of warm Brownies and a glass of milk will fix. In less it's low grain prices. Or poverty. Or the national debt. I guess there are a few things, but nothing you have to worry about right this minute."
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"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."
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"What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out."
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