After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.

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Author: Nancy Gibbs

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We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It

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I'm here to tell you that if you get broken, it's possible to put yourself back together. I'm here t

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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

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But look behind you, Mary.' She nodded towards the dais. 'One of the musicians seems to be trying to

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Maybe the problem with lying is that once you start faking it, it's impossible to tell where the mak

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Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone e

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It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes,

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I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

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Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her fri

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Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.

Author: Jean Ingelow
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Never blame a woman when you can't handle her!

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Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disap

Author: Daniel C. Dennett
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When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit o

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I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into.

Author: Turcois Ominek
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The Women Who Can Wait For Her ManTill Dawn, Without Any Argument,Are Priceless.

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Should one find themselves with a proclivity towards savagery – be it discovered through self-diagno

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Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do.

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Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if

Author: Nancy Gibbs
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They

Author: Carl Jung
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And my seven-year-old world humpty-dumptied, never to be put back together again.

Author: Maya Angelou
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Author: William Blake
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I tapped around on my new Miracle Phone—a gift from Joseph—as I listened to the discussion about our

Author: Laura Kreitzer
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Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.

Author: Douglas Brinkley
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True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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A positive attitude will empower you to be more resilient to proactively adapt to change.

Author: Susan C. Young
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No religion, No race, No countries, Today we are human.

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Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government

Author: Pete Stark
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Birthday is a glorious day.

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And the answer is: You are wrong. The Faeries are not gone. But they are no longer what they were. I

Author: Catherynne M. Valente
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We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, "I don't ne

Author: James MacDonald
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Lena Ella Haloway Tiddle." I pronounce her full name, very slowly, partly because I need to reassure

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At the heart of all of mankind’s achievements is imagination.

Author: R. L. Matthies
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For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Seek the good in life and life will be good to you.

Author: Jenni Young
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Why me?" I blurted out, and then closed my eyes briefly. "Okay. Don't answer that."The food arrived

Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
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Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

Author: Publilius Syrus
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All a woman actually wants is to feel special.

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This world has been connected. Tied to the darkness... soon to be completely eclipsed. There is so v

Author: Ansem
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The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the

Author: Joseph Smith Jr.
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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Author: Frank Dane
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Author: Marianne Moore
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Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia

Author: Liane Moriarty
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With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've g

Author: Callie Khouri
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The past is as easy to travel into as turning the pages of a book...

Author: S.R. Ford
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We love with all our heart but we also keep our heart light and pliable. It has space. It breathes.

Author: Donna Goddard
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First there wasn't, then there was. Before God no one was.

Author: Anita Amirrezvani
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Take chance standout. You can only have your head above waters if you stick your neck out a bit. It'

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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... keeping her wild-honey-and-chamomile-soaked hair from falling into her oatmeal-and-yogurt face m

Author: Emma McLaughlin
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Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way in

Author: William Zinsser
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Life is not the end, and death is just the beginning...

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This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one whic

Author: Patrick Henry
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It is a dull sensation, your heart breaking, like the sound of a pebble dropping on the sand. Not a

Author: Samantha Bruce-Benjamin
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Stop focusing on what you don’t want; it’s a tremendous waste of time and energy. Instead, start foc

Author: Steve Maraboli
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Dharma is found because one cannot create what is already there.

Author: Unknown
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When we reject unreal things in advance, we never can observe see them. Focusing can lead us to stra

Author: Hadas Moosazadeh
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A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiratio

Author: Melvil Dewey
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Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must strictly speaking at ev

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Prayer is divine.

Author: Unknown
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The surest sign of fitness is success.

Author: Olive Schreiner
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Normal day let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you love you bless you befo

Author: Mary Jean Iron
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If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don't want to cry anymore, you don't listen to that so

Author: Jay Asher
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn

Author: Vaclav Havel
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Yesterday I felt like shit, so I rode my bike around town and repeatedly grafittied “The revolution

Author: Inga Muscio
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Who rises from prayer a better man his prayer is answered.

Author: George Meredith
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It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.

Author: Carmelo Anthony
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Of course we're friends ... we are both civilized men, aren't we? We've shared bed and board and bot

Author: Stephen King
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Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian

Author: Charles J. Chaput
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You can only live 'Life' when you stepped out from your comfort zone. Don't restrict yourself within

Author: Jeekeshen Chinnappen
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A brave arm makes a short sword long.

Author: Anonymous
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Every part of Nigeria is blessed.

Author: Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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A bug lies in quiet repose;when he passed no one knows.Did he suffer, was he pained?Before he died,

Author: Nikhil Sharda
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If you love something, let it go. If it does not come back it was not yours to began with.

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Fed on a media diet of really bad news, we live in a perpetual state of repressed panic. We are para

Author: Ruth Ozeki
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What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Author: Simone de Beauvoir
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Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup.

Author: Stanley Victor Paskavich
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In a moment everything could suddenly change, but God and His promises remain the same.

Author: Marie Moreton
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What's so great about writing?" "You can make anything true

Author: Adi Alsaid
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Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Author: Honore de Balzac
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Author: Aristotle
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Don’t compromise your focus by comparing what you are trying to learn to what you already know. Focu

Author: Lorii Myers
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To be successful is to be a carrier of kingdom in every life pursuit

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Pick a side? You done picked the wrong side.

Author: Kelsey Brickl
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The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Author: Mark Skousen
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I'm not brave,' Ava replied huskily. 'If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I a

Author: Kate Forsyth
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Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line.

Author: Dejan Stojanovic
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...a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as we

Author: David Welch
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His face became a mirror, and in it I saw a monster version of myself, unleashing my anger like blac

Author: Leah Stewart
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The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Author: Huey P. Newton
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Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form

Author: Jesse Ventura
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You see, it’s about empathy. It’s not about you. It’s about empathy. It’s not even about caring or b

Author: C. JoyBell C.
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When ideas come I write them when they don't come I don't.

Author: William Faulkner
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Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real peop

Author: Donna Brazile
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The coolest part about seeing a girl wear something comfortable is the smile that you can just feel

Author: Kellan Lutz
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The myth is not my own

Author: Unknown
Quote #419577

Faith is not being sure where you're going but going anyway.

Author: Fredrick Buechner
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The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't go

Author: Margaret Mitchell
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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how sma

Author: Albert Einstein
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Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win

Author: Charles Baudelaire
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Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool

Author: Michael Simpson