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Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:I am not commanding you, but I ...
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I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS
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You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE
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GAIL CARRIGER
If you're looking for me to shed a tear, it's not going to happen. We all know on Sunday, his name w... PHIL MICKELSON She didn't shed a tear. Angels don't cry.
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How to be a Poet (to remind myself)Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY
if it doesn't come bursting out of youin spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
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It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li... STEPHEN CHBOSKY People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
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SOTONYE ANGA
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY
After Rilke's Letters-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II
this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS
…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS
Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS
No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE
Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?""I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.
ELIZABETH GEORGE I found the oldest, rattiest TWC sweater I could find. And I wore it for five days in Lexington just...
NEVIL SHED If people shed a tear at any time during any performance that I do, it shouldn't be because they see...
ROBYN ARCHER
If I were punished for every pun I shed, there would not be left a puny shed of my punnish head SAMUEL JOHNSON
I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors... GARY KEMP For the longest time Kennedy could not streamline a bloated company even after promising to do so, ....
J. CRAMER
To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA
Stand up to injustice, even if you stand alone SUZY KASSEM People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the Wes...
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To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all ... DEYTH BANGER In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
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When I was first elected to the House in 2006, it was important to me to send a clear message to the... KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND
I know the players wanted him (Joseph) to get this at home. He's been tremendous for us all year lon... WAYNE GRETZKY Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS...
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA You have to be careful. Unsuspecting people can spend a lot of money on something that was knocked u...
BRUCE QUARRIE
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. BILLY GRAHAM
Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend ... GAIL SHEEHY I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I...
ERIC WHITACRE
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER
I originally wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to be Kylie Minogue. My dad thought that was a very s... ASHLEY MADEKWE
She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her... DENIS JOHNSON
There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO
Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE
This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w... ALBERT CAMUS
And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s... ALBERT CAMUS
And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ... ALBERT CAMUS
You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ... ALBERT CAMUS
The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t... ALBERT CAMUS
…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o... ALBERT CAMUS
For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every... ALBERT CAMUS
In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis... ALBERT CAMUS He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
SUZAN TISDALE
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW
Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools... CEELO GREEN She wanted to graduate early. She had high priorities, and she knew what she wanted. At one time, sh...
JUDY SHEPHERD
Every shed tears is a prayer. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA She went to the locker room to throw up. I wanted her to go home and get in bed, but she didn't want...
AHMIL JIHAD
My wife is a writer. She grew up in Alaska. She told me she was moving to Boulder and that I could c... BRAD FELD I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE Never plant a seed that seems good to eyes despite plant a seed that will be a shed in the sunlight.
MERLIN8THOMAS
He asked her for coffee, but she wanted tea instead. LJUPKA CVETANOVA We saw a lot of happy tears shed by our volunteers. And we saw a lot of happy tears shed by our clie...
LARRY ROCKWELL She wanted to be a varsity starter very badly. You could see she had the potential, but whenever she...
JACKIE PARSLEY
If you're looking for me to shed a tear, it's not going to happen. But I know ... that come Sunday h... PHIL MICKELSON Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or gro...
DAMIEN RICE Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.
MICHAEL MUSTO She wanted me to come home and get treatment, but I was pretty much just like, 'It's not going to ha...
LAUREN JACKSON A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool...
JASON BIGGS My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in...
NORMAN LAMM We just wanted to come out and be crisp, ... We wanted to get our work in, get in and get out and ke...
CARSON PALMER
I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference. MARILYN MANSON
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. 
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. 
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on h... 
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. 
Justice is the truth in action. 
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. 
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. 
The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives. 
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly he... 
The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. N... 
People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it. 
Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my g... 
Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning! 
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by t... 
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bo... 
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i... 
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
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But th... 
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. 
Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. 
I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed. 
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. 
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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. ... 
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I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imag... 
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Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered ... 
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The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. 
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We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark... 
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We always plan too much and always think too little. 
Perfection is the child of time. 
Legislation, both statutory and constitutional, is enacted, it is true, from an experience of evils ... 
Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. 
What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence. 
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. 
Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through ... 
Only Christ could have conceived Christ. 
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