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"When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different."
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John Galsworthy
"When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different."
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"Success is no magic, grab a handful of hope and never let it go till you get there!"
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Israelmore Ayivor
"Success is no magic, grab a handful of hope and never let it go till you get there!"
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"Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest?"
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Chris Murray
"Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest?"
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"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
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John Steinbeck
"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
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"The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body."
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J.R. Ward
"The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body."
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"The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic."
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Gertrude Stein
"The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic."
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"I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored."
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Anais Nin
"I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored."
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"Mastery of anything is, more than anything else, the transformation of work into play. Giving orders and answers, never making mistakes, and having around you others with the opinion that you are great has nothing at all to do with it. Read carefully: to yearn for, to be compelled by, is being called to play."
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Darrell Calkins
"Mastery of anything is, more than anything else, the transformation of work into play. Giving orders and answers, never making mistakes, and having around you others with the opinion that you are great has nothing at all to do with it. Read carefully: to yearn for, to be compelled by, is being called to play."
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"Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable."
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Samuel Smiles
"Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable."
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"Forgiving someone else doesn't give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on."
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Charles F. Glassman
"Forgiving someone else doesn't give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on."
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"On the one hand, if God is wiser than we His judgement must differ from ours on many things, and not least on good and evil. What seems to us good may therefore not be good in His eyes, and what seems to us evil may not be evil."
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C. S. Lewis
"On the one hand, if God is wiser than we His judgement must differ from ours on many things, and not least on good and evil. What seems to us good may therefore not be good in His eyes, and what seems to us evil may not be evil."
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"The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet."
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Mary Higgins Clark
"The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet."
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"When life presents you with a problem, show the courage, make yourself a hundred times bigger than the problem."
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Debasish Mridha
"When life presents you with a problem, show the courage, make yourself a hundred times bigger than the problem."
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"Dwelling among shipwrecked dreams and losing oneself in wishful thinking cannot be a solution to tribulations. Identifying cracks and apprehending the defaults in one's life is essential to find a way to get out of a ghetto and to start a search for a new haven. ['The world was somewhere else']"
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Erik Pevernagie
"Dwelling among shipwrecked dreams and losing oneself in wishful thinking cannot be a solution to tribulations. Identifying cracks and apprehending the defaults in one's life is essential to find a way to get out of a ghetto and to start a search for a new haven. ['The world was somewhere else']"
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"Beneath the pain of your fears, wild and ready, lives your truth, the essence of your singular beauty, hoping, waiting for you to set it free."
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Scott Stabile
"Beneath the pain of your fears, wild and ready, lives your truth, the essence of your singular beauty, hoping, waiting for you to set it free."
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"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women."
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women."
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"Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment."
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Ellis Peters
"Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment."
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"I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done."
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Sheryl Sandberg
"I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done."
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"Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful."
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Virginia Graham
"Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful."
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"I'm pretty sure I'm the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill."
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Fennel Hudson
"I'm pretty sure I'm the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill."
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"Our reaction and attitude to persecution will determine if we are really ready for big things or not."
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Sunday Adelaja
"Our reaction and attitude to persecution will determine if we are really ready for big things or not."
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"There is wisdom in knowing your limits and then daring to push past them. Choose to live an exceptional life."
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Truth Devour
"There is wisdom in knowing your limits and then daring to push past them. Choose to live an exceptional life."
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"Man, Grandma, what big hair you have.""The better to style with, my dear."
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Neal Shusterman
"Man, Grandma, what big hair you have.""The better to style with, my dear."
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"One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book."
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Bernard Kelvin Clive
"One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book."
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"I must turn myself around so that I am viewing life as my prospects see it. Only then can I start addressing their issues, help to prevent their pain, and advise on solutions to their problems."
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Chris Murray
"I must turn myself around so that I am viewing life as my prospects see it. Only then can I start addressing their issues, help to prevent their pain, and advise on solutions to their problems."
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"Oh, dear God and baby Jesus in the manger, my eyes! Dee shrieked. "My eyes!"
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Jennifer L. Armentrout
"Oh, dear God and baby Jesus in the manger, my eyes! Dee shrieked. "My eyes!"
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"The purpose of learning is not to give exams in class and forget about it, but to increase the knowledge until they possess an area of the earth for God almighty."
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Sunday Adelaja
"The purpose of learning is not to give exams in class and forget about it, but to increase the knowledge until they possess an area of the earth for God almighty."
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"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship tense and anxious groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began only I was without compass or sounding line and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul and rhe light of love shone on me in that very hour."
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Helen Keller
"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship tense and anxious groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began only I was without compass or sounding line and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul and rhe light of love shone on me in that very hour."
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"If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again."
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Kristin Cashore
"If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again."
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"I'm sorry for hurting you. I know I did. I'm most likely dead now, and I guess if there's any kind of fairness in the afterlife I'm probably in hell getting roasted. But if that's where I am, I want you to know, I still love you. Always did. Love, Caine."
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Michael Grant
"I'm sorry for hurting you. I know I did. I'm most likely dead now, and I guess if there's any kind of fairness in the afterlife I'm probably in hell getting roasted. But if that's where I am, I want you to know, I still love you. Always did. Love, Caine."
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"Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle."
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Lewis Carroll
"Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle."
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"You are far more than a biomass."
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Sunday Adelaja
"You are far more than a biomass."
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"Friends can create our most cherished memories."
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Fennel Hudson
"Friends can create our most cherished memories."
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"Uh...are we going to talk about what just happened?" Victoria asked as Drake stepped over to Finn's desk to look at the map layout of the cemetery, seemingly calm about the fact that Bo and Nyx had just disappeared into thin air."
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Katie Reus
"Uh...are we going to talk about what just happened?" Victoria asked as Drake stepped over to Finn's desk to look at the map layout of the cemetery, seemingly calm about the fact that Bo and Nyx had just disappeared into thin air."
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"Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark."
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Anais Nin
"Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark."
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"Today is a day, like every other day, brimming with possibility. A day to treat people with kindness and respect. A day to move closer to fulfilling your dreams. A day to forgive yourself for absolutely everything. A day to smile with gratitude. Today is a day, like every other day, to create the kind of life you want to live, the kind that makes you feel good and right, the kind of life you were born to realize. Today."
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Scott Stabile
"Today is a day, like every other day, brimming with possibility. A day to treat people with kindness and respect. A day to move closer to fulfilling your dreams. A day to forgive yourself for absolutely everything. A day to smile with gratitude. Today is a day, like every other day, to create the kind of life you want to live, the kind that makes you feel good and right, the kind of life you were born to realize. Today."
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"I'm just an everyday kind of hero. If the everyday kind saves babies from burning buildings and looks hotter than hell in bunker gear."
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Lois Greiman
"I'm just an everyday kind of hero. If the everyday kind saves babies from burning buildings and looks hotter than hell in bunker gear."
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"Moxie gave me a small smile. "Why do you always say that- which here means?""I'll probably outgrow it," I said."
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Lemony Snicket
"Moxie gave me a small smile. "Why do you always say that- which here means?""I'll probably outgrow it," I said."
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"Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn't make any difference."
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Stephen Richards
"Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn't make any difference."
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"When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?"
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Richie Norton
"When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?"
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"Living with a saint is more grueling than being one."
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Christian Nestell Bovee
"Living with a saint is more grueling than being one."
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"We don't even know how to rest anymore."
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Craig Groeschel
"We don't even know how to rest anymore."
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"Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious."
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Joan D. Vinge
"Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious."
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"Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm.And Eleanor disintegrated."
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Rainbow Rowell
"Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm.And Eleanor disintegrated."
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"I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa."
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Lauren Oliver
"I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa."
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"Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all."
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
"Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all."
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"There is no permanence or guarantee in this life."
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Janvier Chouteu-Chando
"There is no permanence or guarantee in this life."
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"Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe."
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Victor Hugo
"Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe."
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"I had once again proven that again alone, I was again enough."
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Aspen Matis
"I had once again proven that again alone, I was again enough."
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"Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country."
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Jared Diamond
"Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country."
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