A lot of kids have parents who say, 'Music is hard; maybe you should come up with a Plan B.' Whenever I hear that kind of 'advice,' I think it's bad parenting. I was lucky to have a parent who assured me it was a possibility to pursue music.

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You and your siblings are the most precious part of my life. And of all my children, you have the mo

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The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

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Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don’t let your h

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May the Lord give us a new spirit and new heart

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Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply

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WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP!

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How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short tim

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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

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In most stories she knows, children have a mother and a father, like Iphigenia had Clytemnestra and

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But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before

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I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes,

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Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you’ll never know.

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Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories

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When you go to buy use your eyes not your ears.

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The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their

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...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always goin

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Today was the day to win again, Javlei held his axe in hand he had killed many people with it he did

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If you want to go to a far and difficult place, firstly send your mind to that far place, then your

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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cann

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He is among those beings of great scope who spread their leafy branches willingly over broad horizon

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Sometimes it may seem dark, but the absence of the light is a necessary part.

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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagin

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She liked to watch her father as he read, and to listen to the smoothly rolling tones; she felt no c

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I am an aristocrat. I love liberty I hate equality.

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When we did not know God, we did not live according to His plan; we planned our lives independently

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The conversation limped along this line of thought much like a zombie: lifeless and mindless and mak

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Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than

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The only existence I know now is the one I was given. An echo of what used to be.

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The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of o

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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books an

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Actors are supposed to be these runaways that get in a covered wagon filled with hats and tambourine

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Death is the Graduation of the Soul

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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Author: Michel Foucault
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Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.

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I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people

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I’ll never speak to God again.

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The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of i

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I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

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A near-fatal case of scurvy being the only reason I can imagine drinking something with grapefruit j

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Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot

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The meaning of everything is the meaning you give it, and your experiences are what you say they are

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A certain person wondered whya big strong girl like mewouldn't keep a jobwhich paid a normal salary.

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In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, th

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Don't miss a chance at happiness because of your past misery.

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Not all the relationships deserve loving and all the lies worth to regret.

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Anyone who recommends attention to the moment as a prescription for grateful wonder is only telling

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I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're going to a

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When you worry you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Think

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I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy.

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Finding one’s place in the world is never easy.Have courage and be true to who you are.Remember, tho

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If we could all hear one another's prayers God might be relieved of some of his burden.

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The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution

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The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a st

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In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable,

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When man penetrates the mysteries of Nature, the "facts of Nature" become transparent symbols, revea

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As falsehood peels like paint, eternal truth is uncovered.

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Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath.

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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

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A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.

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Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And when you stumble, keep fa

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It’ll never be too late to start to make use of the time you still have left

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In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from h

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As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creat

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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

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I like strangers, they say the nicest things

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The Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

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In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish

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Physical pain was easy. It would always pass in the end. All it needed was time - a ticking clock.

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A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.

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If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you

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Hardcore without punk isn't music, it's a genre of porn. And punk isn't a genre of music, it’s a tho

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Even knowing that my presence brought a shadow over the lives of my loved ones, I can't regret the e

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A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!

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Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and youcatch a glimpse of a tiny light i

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Your trials last as long as your disobedience.

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She was prisoner to an old, forgotten god, kept from her home, probably never to see it again, and y

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When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more f

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Babe, I hate to break it to you, but you're one messed up mess.""I know!" I exclaimed before breakin

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Death is around everyone’s corner, people try to run and hide from it, but it al-ways catches up wit

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Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of m

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I want to know,” he breathed, his tongue moving between her breasts. “When do we get to be bad again

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The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you bur

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Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it enjoy it taste it smell it feel it.

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Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different b

Author: Milan Kundera
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Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children--children make parents. They shape our

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My mom has gone out of her way in her personal life. She's been with me on the road. She's had to de

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People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings ar

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Amazing love and grace that Christ shared for all to be saved.

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Just as a star can’t be seen behind a cloud, you can never shine and be seen behind the clouding of

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The problem of a worker in today’s knowledge industry is not the scarcity of information but its exc

Author: philosopher Mario Bunge
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Look deep into my soul than what stretches the fabric of my clothes

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For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into a

Author: Norman O. Brown
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I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.

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We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where

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To Jana's mind everybody seemed happy to see BAbichka and resisted returning her, like a misplaced p

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If science will ever prove that God does not exist, then we already left this world.

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I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can fin

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