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"One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world."

"I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face."

"He's got more red flags than Soviet Russia."

"The first step in getting unstuck and moving forward is to examine what is holding you back from taking action. The power is yours to set your intention and take the action needed to create the life you desire. You are in control of your initiative-be proactive."

"To give your dream an honest try, is to persist and persevere for however long that it would take for it to meet its point of reality."

"It rained toads the day the White Council came to town."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"When you give people a choice, they believe they have power."


"You must always be proactive."

"Easter is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the blunt acknowledgement that left to its own devices, the genius of our design will result in the destruction of our lives."

"There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be."

"Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them."


"The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them."

"In a democracy government is the God."


"I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism."

"There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class."

"We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children's children, not to party politics."

"But he did not tell her, for he realised how petty it would appear to her, and how different from what she had expected, less sensational and less touching; he was afraid, too, lest, disillusioned in the matter of art, she might at the same time be disillusioned in the greater matter of love."


"We must stand so firmly for the truth so that we do not back down because every movement away from righteousness and God's truth is similar to death."


"Satisfaction is the inner state of a man, it cannot be achieved externally."

"You can't start a new life if you continue to dwell in your past."

"I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when we had met M. Legrandin; instead, I went downstairs to the kitchen to ask about the menu for our dinner, which was of fresh interest to me daily, like the news in a paper, and excited me as might the programme of a coming festivity."

"However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years."

"Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled."

"Snow's table manners are atrocious - it's like watching a wild dog eat. A wild dog you'd like to slip the tongue."

"Pick a mentor. Select and be closer to someone who is there to talk to you, inspire you, and be on you, monitoring your affairs and movements for the best reasons and ensuring that your dreams become fruitful."

"The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute."

"Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about."


"God knows how to turn your weakness to strength."

"Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book."

"The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved."
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