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"In fact there is only your own instinct? Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something about that letter is wrong."
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"Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression."
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"None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it."
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"He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys whoa re part wolf and part wind do not get cold."
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"People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories."
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"The first secret of success: Believe in Yourself. Nothing changes in your life until you believe you can do things that are important to you. And if you have a low opinion of yourself, nobody else is likely to raise it."
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"But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality."
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"Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well."
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"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."
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"Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason."
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"No matter what happens, you will always be Pack. Because you have that loyalty and restraint. Not human, not whatever, but Kate. Unique and different, but not separate."
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"The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself."
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"Mistakes are the only universal form of originality."
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"The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone."
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"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."
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"The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality."
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"Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only master of all is the Creator, and he created all men to be free. Freedom is a God-given right, not a human-granted gift. No man should have to fight to breathe in good health and peace."
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"I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's."
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"I have lost confidence in myself."
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"You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something."
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"For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through collective memory; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen, that must happen. Myth will become reality, however sceptical we might be."
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"The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79."
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"You will meet many opponents in your time that will come face to face with your flaws, trust the chaos ~ pain & confusion is the pathway to break open and become free."
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"Ive lived so long a person, they tamed me to be,I spoke with care & held back the real, me. But the time has come, My voice will be heard. My messages are clear& I'm not the same girl. I am wild, my heart is rareI am untameable and I dont fuckin' care Life is too short, to live for another, I've faced the rain, storms and thunder And if there's one thing, I have kept in my mind It's i am, who I am and I don't give a damn if you don't like."
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"Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue."
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"Determination is the first step of ladder to show Efficiency."
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"Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God."
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"It's often been said, she's easy on the eye but the moment she shows you a slice of her personality, you'll feel for the first time, something of magic is walking on this earth."
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"No, justice has not ceased to exist. How could it? It is possible for men to abandon their sight of it, and then it is justice that destroys them. But it is not possible for justice to go out of existence, because one is an attribute of the other, because justice is the act of acknowledging that which exists."
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"She knew a thing she should have known all along: that dead people are like wax memory-you take them in your mind, you shape and squeeze them, push a bump here, stretch one out there, pull the body tall, shape and reshape, handle, sculp and finish a man-memory until he's all out of kilter."
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"Happy is the man who enjoy warmth of the sun and refresh in the breeze, who is secure within and say I have lived to-day."
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"I'm still pretty sick about what I've lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why I'm not the best sleeper."
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"If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery."
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"Cultural and religious traditions that forbid cross-cultural unions prevent peace on earth. Instead of rejoicing that our sons and daughters are heart-driven and love other humans outside of their familiar religious, social or cultural domains, we punish and insult them. This is wrong. Honor killings are not honorable by God. They are driven by ignorance and ego and nothing more. The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates. If you think God will punish you or your child for allowing them to marry outside of your tribe or faith, then you do not know God. Love is his religion and the light of love sees no walls. Anybody who unconditionally loves another human being for the goodness of their heart and nothing more is already on the right side of God."
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