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<|endoftext|>inspiration: We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: You are the creator of your universe, and you are the destroyer of it too.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>romance: He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: But for their cries,The herons would be lostAmidst the morning snow.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I'm not funny. What I am is brave.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: Seafood My body's just a shell,the world is my oyster ~and I'm getting a whale of appetiteright now for some delicious seafood .<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>happiness: We thought everything would be forgotten, but I still remember yourclaws running down my back.I wonder if you still think about us,the way I do.How our legs would crash into each other in the middle of the night, and how we endedup creating the moon in the confines of our beds.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do not know how to try.There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>friendship: Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>friendship: There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the water will flow and blend into the river's brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now...<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: You are what you share.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tyson pounding the Earthborn into the ground like a game of whack-a-mole. Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: "The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive."SMASH!"Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: ...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: What's a dementor?"I mean, I can't even. "Nora, you are no longer my sister.""So it's some Harry Potter thing,"she says.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: We are all failures- at least the best of us are.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God. Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: I mined my mind, and I found no love. My heart is where excavation yields gold, and if you dig me as much as I dig you, we can both get rich.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: I was going to change my clothes, but I changed my mind instead.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: Galoshes Haiku Cherry blossoms bloomin the morning mist.Thank God I took my galoshes.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: We are unusual and tragic and alive.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: When you love yourself, then you are at peace. Wants or needs cannot destroy it<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: Read books<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: You are what you write.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: You know what I like most about people? Pets.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: They will only care when you're gone.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: hope for the best, prepare for the worst<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: High thoughts must have high language.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right,' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: A Loaf of Challah Haiku A loaf of challah,a bottle of Rashi wine...For everything else there's Simply Manischewitz.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: ... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: You can never deplete your love by giving it away. Why not give yourself to love?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>romance: No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: [The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism andcompromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting itinstead into meek subservience to authority.<|endoftext|>