At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent.

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People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The Peop

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Some folks are forced to the edges by their difference. (...) But 'tis at the edges that they find t

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From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right

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An awareness of mortality is a heavy price to pay for sentience

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Sometimes i am not sure.if i am writing the poemor the poemis writing me.

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Take my hands,” Alec said. “And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yoursel

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Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it a

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In this world, all that which is on the outside, is also within! Faults that are seen on the outside

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The magic of you is in your capacity to shape change.

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Without proper readiness, we’re subject to a 'flub,' or a costly mistake which might have been easil

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Those who donated their life for humanity lived a perfect life.

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Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passe

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When you prepare, regularly work hard, create value, help others get what they want, and persevere..

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Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.

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Max: Why do I get the feeling you’ve played god and you don’t know what you’ve created.Dr Hurstville

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When people get into their 30s plus "boyfriend" sounds weird...if you really think about it. Instead

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The Spirit, and your soul are not the same things. The Spirit is God - the source. Your soul is God'

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I realised I really didn’t know what I was doing and I felt her trace drowning in the middle of the

Author: Emiliano Campuzano
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Never run back to whatever broke you.

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Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disa

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I've been readen th Bible an a hunten God fer a long while-off an on- but it ain't so easy as picken

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If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.

Author: Edward R. Tufte
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

Author: Mel Brooks
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Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere

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All we need to know about the storms is this: Storms are born, they live and they die! And they dest

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It is certainly better not to have studied a subject at all than to have studied it superficially. F

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Inside your dream is a nation. To the rest of the world it is invisible, yet it is the only thing yo

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How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then

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When you're successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you. When you're down an

Author: Suresh Raina
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Believing in God and turning into Monsters.

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Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your p

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As we don't live in a perfect world, try to spend 80% of your time doing important but not urgent ac

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The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?

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Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet wi

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My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vam

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In the world you live in, one day you will be gone but you must fulfill your mission before departur

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One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive.

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Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

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Are you ready for the rapture of the churchAre you ready for HeavenOur Lord Jesus Christ now wants a

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There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can’t trust an

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Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Author: Walt Whitman
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Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

Author: Mitch Albom
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But Khair did not need such proof of her husband's love for her. Over and over again,James had riske

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I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

Author: Markus Zusak
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To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

Author: Sarah Palin
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You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Author: Walt Disney
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he

Author: Martin Luther King
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Be the master of your mind, dwell on positive thoughts.

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Please stop shaking your rain water in my direction. What next? Are you going to come over here, coc

Author: Stephen J. Day
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Some people don’t deserve your time and attention. Love them anyway.

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What you should actually be trying to figure out is how to tell your story. The one that is every bi

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At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their div

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I never work better than when I am inspired by anger for when I am angry I can write pray and pr

Author: Martin Luther
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Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

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Metal business cards are a good investment. Especially if you were to meet Magneto. He would have no

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Beggar that I am I am even poor in thanks.

Author: William Shakespeare
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The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always starte

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on.

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A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

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We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

Author: Euripides
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How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be impo

Author: Linda Sue Park
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And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what

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In life, I regret the things I didn't do far more than the missteps I made along the way.

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I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architect

Author: Peter Zumthor
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And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt

Author: Sarah J. Maas
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Kindness don't have no boundaries.

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We should be told: Write fast, write close to the bone, write for ten hours straight until you’re no

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A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

Author: Helen Keller
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Any idea why there is a giant penis made out of snow in our front yard?"Instead of an answer, I was

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Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settl

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I now have anti-bodies to assholes after working for so many.

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There is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort come

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Our life experiences only teaches us but not break us.

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If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms.

Author: Kamal Ravikant
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Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

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We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look

Author: Ian Somerhalder
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Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

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I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more film

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The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

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This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within da

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Online leadership is about leveraging digital platforms such as blogs, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, F

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The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottom

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We all came to Seattle in hopes of building better lives. No one said we wouldn't have to struggle f

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What whispers from the center of the soul is an innocence—so loving, so pure, so divine—that the sag

Author: Heather K. O'Hara
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Music repairs us when it breaks the silence.

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We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and

Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
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You beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They

Author: Jim Butcher
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Going home helps the content.

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God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit t

Author: K. Howard Joslin
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People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

Author: Jeff Bezos
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She breathed in the crisp autumn air, hoping the loveliness of nature would somehow cleanse her soul

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Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggl

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I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

Author: Ben Affleck
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You will meet many opponents in your time that will come face to face with your flaws, trust the cha

Author: Nikki Rowe
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Good intentions are good netiquette. A conscious effort to be nice others on the internet. NetworkEt

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In blink of an eye everything can change, so forgive often and love all your heart. You may never kn

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Sometimes doesn't mean behaving nice, means you will got the same answer, it never means that everyt

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Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanctio

Author: Carl Menger