Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.

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There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence.

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It seems to be Latin American destiny to always have the United States say 'amen.

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Yes, the same God who created all the universes created you as a one-of-a-kind. He knows you and lov

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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

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How could we have developed our intellectual skills without education?

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The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

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Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

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The wisdom of my 45 years has met and joined simplicity and it has drawn a long and merry smile:)

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One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

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Emotions invariably push you to take suboptimal decisions

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The basis of your life is absolute freedom, the goal is joy, and the result of that perfect combinat

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I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but

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This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don'

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

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The best of what we are lies in what we hope to be

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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

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Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and

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He was king, if he didn’t have enemies he wasn’t doing it right.

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I write because if I don’t let it out of my system, I will die with guilt.

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You should conduct a research- to study the issue or field you are interested in

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Everything I do is for her, for Fallon.

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Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human natu

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Only fool keeps mocking perseverance.

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I love to go the library to borrow books. But I also enjoyed buying books to create my sacred librar

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I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.

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From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths to

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In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

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By giving, you get, if you don't give, don't expect.

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Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher

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The two fundamental skills of any leader are creativity and initiative. Creativity to find solutions

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Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.

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Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.

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I want to slap him.Curse him.Scream at him.Slap him some more.I want to reach a hand into his chest

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We go to partake of death. And it is in these moments, before the blades are unsheated, before blood

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Whatever you do don't let anybody talk you into doing something about the way you look ever.

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I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.

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Hell won't be so bad, you know. After all, I'll be there to keep you company.

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A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

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I’ve been surrounded by nitwits my entire life.

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Gideon brought into my life. The acceptance and the love. The safety. Gideon had given me my freedom

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If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very int

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The most important thing you can do for yourself each day is to create (in and around you) an enviro

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Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin.

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The future you build for yourself is only as limited as your imagination and a undisciplined goal or

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It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

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American political elites feel very empowered to criticize the American intelligence community for n

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Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

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Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just imp

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When he expressed his feelings for her - always here like this, while he touched her or made love to

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We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to d

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Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

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If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things ref

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She deceiving I believing What need lovers wish for more?

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Those who cannot have your love, will gladly accept your hatred.

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I think as long as you wear your imperfections on your sleeve, people respect it more.

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I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our

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The greatest obstacle is occur in my life due to reluctance

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Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

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You need that guy like a giraffe needs a strep throat.

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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful

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The past is gone, and tomorrow is an illusion. There is only now.

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My life is wondrous, and I appreciate it every day!

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Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be him

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Make a change of your steps when necessary. “Status quo” is the court room where change is kept on t

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Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it fol

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The universe is one body

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If we had not experienced our deep sinfulness and Jesus' deep forgiveness through the cross, we will

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Peace, he'd said. And revolution. How could there be both?

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Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.

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The fear of love can be replaced by the love of fear

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You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you are

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All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.

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..."There’s really no way I can explain it to her without *still* sounding like scum," I complained

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth

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You least obtain something great from the great thing you regard as least though such great thing ca

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For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretc

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He thought he’d lived through everything. Only now did he realise he’d merely existed.

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Izzy felt as though she’d wandered into the third act of a play. She had no idea what was going on,

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There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.

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When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own

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And then came the three-toed sloth. Stupid sloth. It was a crazy-looking beastie, all arms and brist

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The key to leadership remains influence. What kind of a leader are you and how do you deliberately m

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Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

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Let your emotions guide your hand to the paper and watch how your sorrows can turn into beauty. For

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Life is about making good choices, Matt. One after the other. They pile up day after day. It's only

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Fashion has a right to exist, because it permits people to define themselves over and over again.

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