Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

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We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth

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I think it is just a matter of getting into the mind of the writer,” Vetinari went on, looking at a

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He was a sceptic, he was young, abstract, and therefore cruel.

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Then it is your opinion…that a man should never-“-Invest in portable property in a friend?”… “Certai

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There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.

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When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming

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Every AWAKENING starts with a WORD. Speak positive things into your life.

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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lo

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Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how m

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Still, what I want in my lifeis to be willingto be dazzled—to cast aside the weight of factsand mayb

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Not strictly one of mine, but worth repeating! A very forceful old lady in these parts, when referri

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You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

Author: Victoria Osteen
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Violent love eats up what it does love, and it is mere appetite. I scribbled on the bottom of this b

Author: Maria McCann
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There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do

Author: Orson Scott Card
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But for many writers, and to borrow a popular cliché, it’s like getting blood from a stone. You have

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Description is the color in the canvas of your story.

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If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a soluti

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In the past few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

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The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job

Author: Rose Schneiderman
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Don’t make a feller wait too long. A feller waiting on a gal can get ornery’er than a huntin’ dog th

Author: Colleen Houck
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The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

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For the unlearned old age is winter for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

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All I trust is the past. Things that have ended can't betray me.

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Do not take pictures to please the public, the photo should be spontaneous and free

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When a Lady chooses to Change Her Mind,' said the Mouse with a touch of hauteur, 'a Gentleman would

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Author: Saul Alinsky
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You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.

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The shortest distance between two people is a smile.

Author: Victor Borge
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I am very thankful that I have lived the life I have lived. I am thankful for my Graves' disease, an

Author: Gail Devers
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It's a funny old world.

Author: Margaret Thatcher
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Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching

Author: Rodman Philbrick
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Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.

Author: Gunther Schuller
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Let everyday be an inch closer to worthwhile and an inch away from meaningless.

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There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

Author: Mark Strand
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I’ve learned to turn life’s setbacks into opportunities for creation.

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Experience everything but cling to what is right.

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Oh the comfort the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh th

Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

Author: Julia Morgan
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We’ve all made mistakes, we all have struggles, and we‘ve done things we don’t even want to remember

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Friends are family members we have a choice over.

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Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a p

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Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the scien

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Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. A

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Sonia Gandhi and her husband have always been persons I look at with a lot of respect. Of course, on

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The worst choice you can make, is no choice at all.

Author: Suzie Barnes-Eilhauer
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My story being done,She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:She swore,––in faith, twas strange, 't

Author: William Shakespeare
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If you know who you are and know that you live to achieve goals in keeping with who you are, it does

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Never do anything that you don’t want to have to explain to 9-1-1 personnel.

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Her melodious laughter sounded like the distant tinkling of soft bells and he stored the sound in he

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. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we can't see

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The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our cult

Author: Michelle Obama
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One of the greatest tragedies of growing up is the discovery that your parents- and your teachers, a

Author: Robin Wasserman
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The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the

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Never stop learning, and always be ready to teach yourself things you don’t know. The only things yo

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When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a cho

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You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.

Author: Richie Norton
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He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.

Author: Bible
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But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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How lucky are you as seekers of knowledge because God will ease your way into heaven, angels will sp

Author: Ahmad Fuadi
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Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody kno

Author: Ray Bradbury
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Don't fight the system, mock the system

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Sometimes, all it takes is one arm wrap-round. And a heart’s home.

Author: Alyse M. Gardner
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On his way offstage, the president shook hands with Lin and said, "I'm proud of you, man." (In a ges

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Stop chasing society’s definition of success and chase your own definition of success. Success is an

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Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day

Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Never fade into your life,Never stop imagining,Never give up on your dreams,You only fail, when you

Author: Akash Lakhotia
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All good things that happen today are a part of golden memories in future.

Author: Saravana Kumar Murugan
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We all have the DNA of an entrepreneur.Some are building their own dreams.While most are building ot

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Once a day has begun eventfully, it generally carries on being every bit as lively.

Author: Albert Ehrenstein
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I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same

Author: Tucker Carlson
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[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

Author: David Brooks
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Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window

Author: Glen Duncan
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It doesn’t matter what people thinks of us what is important is what God thinks of us

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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If you don't write it down, then it never happened

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You are to use this one life to make a difference in your world. You are to invest your time and not

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A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abil

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I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad

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Although my father had never been there, I came to believe I would someday see that city for him.

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I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and

Author: Alexander the Great
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Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule

Author: W.H. Auden
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A part of my depression lies, I think, in my unanswered question: Where is home? I feel a sense, alw

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Everybody in this academy, Shadowhunters and mundanes, people with the Sight and without it, every o

Author: Cassandra Clare
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Love is a powerful magic.

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An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpre

Author: Daniel Yergin
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped godde

Author: Hanya Yanagihara
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Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten.

Author: Karen Azinger
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Life is happy when u make it. Its boring when u hate it

Author: Sreeja Pai
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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Author: Peter F. Drucker
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Aging is harder for beautiful people, and Anna was beautiful.

Author: Marina Keegan
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Will is a gift from God, desire from the devil.

Author: James Rozoff
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Liberty is a great celestial goddess. strong, benevolent and austere. Hello august August.

Author: Sravani Saha Nakhro
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More than half of our history is lost, not because they were not documented, but they had no guardia

Author: M.F. Moonzajer
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There are no walls at the edge of this universe...absence of gravity is the limit of space existence

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I was far from being a child prodigy, and yet I learnt relativity at the age of 15!

Author: Ray d'Inverno
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The first time Calypso came to check on [Leo], it was to complain about the noise.“Smoke and fire,”

Author: Rick Riordan
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The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

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Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All re

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The college bookstore was a splash of life, culture, and society. As a psychology student, I often f

Author: Gina Marinello-Sweeney
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All death reminds us that nothing is promised, only that life was worth it.

Author: Shannon L. Alder