All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Author: Aristotle

Author: Aristotle

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The question to ask ourselves; "Would you rather be right or would you rather have peace?" Some batt

Author: Eileen Anglin
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Leaving one religion for the sake of another one is like breaking with a rapist for the sake of dati

Author: M.F. Moonzajer
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I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.

Author: Ronald Sukenick
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You are a drop of perfect in an imperfect world. and all I need, is a taste

Author: pleasefindthis
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The worst feeling when speaking with someone or receiving a gift from them is knowing they feel obli

Author: Donna Lynn Hope
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If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

Author: Chuck Palahniuk
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I tried to close my ears to the strange worshipful chanting and fix my mind on God, but the Egyptian

Author: Kristen Reed
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The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel.I broke something, Old Man.How badly is it broken?

Author: James Frey
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When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand

Author: Uzo Aduba
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I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
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I said I love youwhen what I meant to say was"I’m afraid of being alone."I said I need youwhen what

Author: Sade Andria Zabala
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I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.

Author: Curt Flood
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Love is like a mountain with many peaks and each new passion brings in a different view. Don't be af

Author: Palle Oswald
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As soon as we open our eyes in the morning, what we want most is to matter, to live a life and to do

Author: Bernadette Jiwa
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I decided to find out how people at school might react if one of the students never came back.

Author: Jay Asher
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There's no poetry in me, Reginleit. No fine words." He stared down at her, his gaze seeming to consu

Author: Kresley Cole
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You sort of don't find me attractive? That can also mean you sort of do find me attractive.

Author: Colleen Hoover
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The prayer of a progressive man is like a work over compared to his unstable counterpart.

Author: ANIKOR Daniel
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I wondered how he'd learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against

Author: Amy Harmon
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The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To

Author: Eric Chaisson
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Whoever is willing to sacrifice his life for God will always be under God’s protection

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Life is like a plate of chillies, what you do today might just burn your ass tomorrow!

Author: Hazim Bangwar
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The politicians will reduce effusions with gbeshie-inspired confidence on political platforms if the

Author: Nana Awere Damoah
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There's a societal push for conformity in all ways. There's less tolerance of difference. And so may

Author: Jon Ronson
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The citizens of Ludania would finally be free, no longer forced into a class system that determined

Author: Kimberly Derting
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Lust, I suspect, wears repatent stilettos, that feather boa and not much else. Maybe glossy red lips

Author: Claire Cross
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Life cannot purely rely on thoughts. Action is required with better sence of humour.

Author: Kishore Bansal
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Until you've been washed ashore you can't know how all encompassing the sea has become.

Author: John Maerz
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As you step out of your comfort zone,may life embrace you back.

Author: Leta B.
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How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!

Author: Susan Sontag
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My characters will happily march off a cliff if it is in them to do so, but may the gods help me if

Author: Thomm Quackenbush
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People are only worth what their responsibilities make them

Author: Lincoln Cole
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Start to laugh and everything will go well.

Author: Deyth Banger
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I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money

Author: Willie Nelson
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The task ahead of you is never as great as the power within you.

Author: Fran ''Mystiblu'' Hafey
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To write is human, to edit is divine.

Author: Stephen King
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Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security an

Author: Jacqueline Novogratz
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You have an inner prosperity guide: your intuition. When you begin to pay attention to it, it will l

Author: Lynn A. Robinson
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I only enjoy what I can see, because I don't feel anything. For example, your new wallpaper. I like

Author: Elfriede Jelinek
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I love travel, it promotes open-mindedness, and I believe that the interactions you have as you go p

Author: Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
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Bhagwan’ (God, Self) and ‘Paramatma’ (Supreme or absolute Self); these two words are spoken. Muslims

Author: Dada Bhagwan
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I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

Author: C.S. Lewis
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LIfe is just a game of chance, a dance with fate if you let it be so. Or you could chose to play by

Author: Steven Redhead
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There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti

Author: Joseph Conrad
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It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a

Author: Jodi Picoult
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Regrets are a terrible thing to live with but, if we take a good look at them, some are not regrets

Author: Ron Baratono
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I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then fro

Author: Chris Murray
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When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (

Author: Warwick Davis
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When he put his arms around me, and held me to his chest, everything in me settled. When he spoke in

Author: Cybill Cain
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Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

Author: Carlos J. Cortes
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As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families—they w

Author: Han Kang
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Many times people take my kindness for stupidity, including "christians" will try to take advantage

Author: Unknown
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The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and r

Author: Karen Kimsey-House
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wis

Author: Phillips Brooks
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Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard

Author: Terry Tempest Williams
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30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and

Author: Richard Brautigan
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Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams.

Author: Victor Robert Lee
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Missing someone enlightens how the person means to you and broadens the feelings shared.

Author: Unarine Ramaru
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We buy things, not with money, but with our precious life we call time.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Fears hide within fears....

Author: Jacqueline Ripstein
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I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my

Author: Chuck Yeager
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Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose

Author: Wilhelm Reich
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It is fairy dust and wanderlust that guide our hands to create what our hearts desire.

Author: Gayle Wray
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Think big from the beginning.

Author: Ehab Atalla
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To know our values is to have a foundation on which to build a great life. Our environment and educa

Author: Chris Matakas
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You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were sw

Author: Jon Stewart
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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Author: Otto von Bismarck
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This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books.

Author: Deyth Banger
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs not only of goodness

Author: William Hazlitt
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Author: Ernest Hemingway
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A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are

Author: John Shirley
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Reap your harvest. (Benefits) You have been sowing seeds on good soil. (Working Hard) Your garden is

Author: Amaka Imani Nkosazana
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Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relations

Author: Ashley Greene
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Sometimes animals are more human than men and men more animals than animals

Author: Válgame
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Being disciplined with an ego that makes you to feel like you can never be disciplined by any other

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what

Author: Christopher Hampton
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Success doesn't necessarily make you a happy person ... but without the confidence and security that

Author: Jinger Heath
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That good or bad momentS never be forgetten. It Store alwayS in any corner of your mind or heart it

Author: Sumit Lakhani
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Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are.

Author: Shellen Lubin
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When Chuck Norris calls 911 it's to ask if everything is ok.

Author: Oliver Oliver Reed
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A daisy blooming in a desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellenc

Author: Aristotle
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It was chance. A random series of events given meaning by somone desperate to prove there's a design

Author: Shaun David Hutchinson
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The Lord shall be your comfort in times of distress.

Author: Unknown
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Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the com

Author: Robin Wells
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There is a difference between information and knowledge, and the most important role of the library

Author: Kathleen McCook
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If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly

Author: Randy Alcorn
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There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided

Author: Winston Churchill
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Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

Author: Gustav Heinemann
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They want a hero to worship, and a villain to condemn. They have found their villain today, and they

Author: Sanchit Gupta
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Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart.

Author: Auliq Ice
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I sat down in a chair by the bed. The house got altogether still again, and I thought he was asleep.

Author: Wendell Berry
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Though Jack Nubbins was extremely talented, Quenten Cassidy had viewed the Specter; when he reached

Author: John L. Parker Jr.
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Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.

Author: Anonymous
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I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

Author: Sally Phillips
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No matter how far you have come... No matter how you survived your checkered past... Sometimes, you

Author: Kaleb Kilton
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Author: Margaret Atwood
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, rec

Author: Adam Gopnik