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<|endoftext|>books: Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Your life is a show and you're the star so don't let anyone walk on set and treat you like an extra.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I saw him do a No More Potatoes Dance, after he saw me stuff the last of the mashed potatoes in my pocket.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn't mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comment. Didn't apply to Calypso. Obviously.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: We got into an argument over the color of love. I said it was pink, and he said it was red. So you see, I had no other choice but to stab him.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: To realize the truth, you have to cross the boundaries of all religions and prophets.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Life will be a whole lot better if we understand what our salvation in Christ means.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>happiness: This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I'm a sarcastic person, and people don't get my humor sometimes.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze."(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913)<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: Whatever I learned,Whatever I knew,Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,Away in some dilemma,Always in some confusion,The purpose of this life,Seems like an illusion!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Peace is not a result inside us from everything around us. Peace is not submissive nor passive. On the contrary, peace is an overwhelming force which comes from within us, disrespectful of everything around us, a firm coalition of spirit and soul standing against all the unrest that abounds.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: He's waiting for yu, young queen.'Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?'The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: We made love like flamingoes are pink. You know what else was pink? My cheeks, because I was so embarrassed when I found out that she was the wrong woman.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: The Poet's Mind In so many ways I walk ablaze in a maze,my eyes in a glaze, my mind in a daze,this poem's just a phrase in the latency phase,rephrase, rephrase, rephrase...<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: Once a Ponce a time she made me feel like a conquistador. Now her memory is just a breeze seen in swaying Spanish moss.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: Hook 'em I know how to leave them satisfied and hungry for more ~with a carefully administered shot of insulin.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Ethics is a dream.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: I saw him do a No More Potatoes Dance, after he saw me stuff the last of the mashed potatoes in my pocket.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Anne laughed."I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: My righteousness is just as good as Jesus' righteousness, because it IS Jesus' righteousness!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: And where love ends, hate begins<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: Say No to Drugs Commercials The image of an egg sizzling in a frying pan is not your brain on drugs.It's just a fucking omelet.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>happiness: The secret of happiness is love and secret of love is nonjudgmental care.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: Men Be Forewarned! [20w] A man caught in the embrace of the wrong womanis like having his penis caught in a bear trap.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: ...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: To read is to empower,To empower is to write,To write is to influence,To influence is to change,To change is to live".<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am."We are ontological oxymorons.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: I loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Fear is what keeps the walls up, so open the gate and let what you want, in when you want<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.<|endoftext|>