Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

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Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day.Some scars never heal

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In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in

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They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense

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If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long

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Nature endowed human beings with two teleological components that define our essential humanity: con

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The heart of man is vulnerable to negativity, but it could be easily fortified with positivity

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Each daily improvement should have a means by which it can be measured so you can see and feel yours

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Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

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And as if suffering ever taught anybody a thing except to thank God when it ended.

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The way to get ahead is to start now.

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He tends to go for girls who are-Shelby, honey? Put your hands over your ears for just a sec.” Back

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...in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't make decisions you would never do any

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Seemingly insignificant choices are like seemingly trivial seeds. Once planted, they root and grow a

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Love is like a lion. It's fierce and strong. It conquers fear and uncertainties, and it knows how to

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You are the authority and the gatekeeper of your own life.

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The biggest mistake people make in life is trying to be someone else. They never find themselves, so

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Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers wo

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To be wrecked begins with an experience that pulls you out of your comfort zone and self-centerednes

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I lead Paco through the house. We pass Shelley in the family room looking at some magazine. "Shelley

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His touch was simple, but specific, meant to show me he could be like a lover, gentle, intimate, but

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After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to pu

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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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Any game plan? (Xypher)Don't die. (Sin)I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me. (Xypher)

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One of the most difficult things he'd ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows.

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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist u

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Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.

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She who is brave is free.

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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they f

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For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you.

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Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story

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The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that de

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Lifting, smiling back at her giggle, her relief, I tease, “If you want to bleed sweetheart, I can ma

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Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, throu

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A police officer should legally be able to refuse body mounted electronic devices, based on the exte

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As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries

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I want the possibility of forever wrapped in a hundred million moments. I want us.

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Hell, yes. I love you; that’s not going to change. I want this, I want you, and I think . . . Oh hel

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The world is your real country! Replace your local mind with the universal one!

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There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help

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An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school s

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You have the right to believe anything you want and any religion you want. You do not have the right

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Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to he

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Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that t

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Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after

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•Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without

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You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more a

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The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be

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A self-made man" - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself

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We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cr

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The Altitude of Prayer doesn't matter but the Attitude

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Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

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The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us

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True leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievement

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After I see a painting, I go into a room, I close my eyes and I slowly escape into the beauty of the

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...men unite against none so readily as against those whom theysee attempting to rule over them.

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You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope

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Not only is Donald Trump the most despised candidate ever, but many of the people who have made the

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There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something th

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Listen to me, kitten. Win or lose, you’ll always be a princess to me.

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[Multitudes] have never been born again. They will go into eternity lost—while thinking they are sav

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The vampires took everything from me, but I'm looking into the eyes of one who has the power to give

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The love of money, not money, is root of all evil.

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The feel of him made her forget all of her troubles, all the decisions weighing on her. She wanted t

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Curiosity also makes a great student.

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I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

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Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, bu

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A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss?

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Unlikely truths are useful and life is full of them, far more than the very worst of novels, no nove

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Corrigan crept up to the bar, cautiously moving around it. It looked like he was copying all the mov

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I don't bite, Lucy."She wanted him to. She wanted him to bite and suck and nibble and have his wicke

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Pollution in your mind will make your heart BLACK...

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I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves a

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Words flow from love, and speech is likewise confounded by love. It is the sweetest gesture to be wi

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What is pain to a man? A privilege!

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An Indian child is brought up in England, and he will speak both English and Hindi very well. Englis

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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world

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If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.

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Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions.

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The only people I am aware of who don’t have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods

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It is necessary for us to have an imperfect freedom so that we can give ... if we cannot give anythi

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it posses

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Is it atikraman [Hurtful karma] if we eat, cut our hair or brush our teeth? No, it is not like that.

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The day we stop yearning, is the day we stop learning.

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Fast forgiveness is a part of Christian culture I want to help change and transform. I ache for a jo

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When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.

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I'm trying to tell MiSSSisss WaSShington about our ceremony for Father.But it takes time tomatch eve

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How did you not know they broke up? You usually monitor his social media like he's al-Qaeda and you'

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Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two

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Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you re

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The heart is delighted by the first,The other makes the mind go numb;Happiness and gloom like twins,

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There is only one sin, only one, and that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When yo

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Ask any venture capitalist, and they will tell you that they consider the experience and completenes

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