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She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES

The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
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What is the Other?" they ask.
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PAULO COELHO

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFER

When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil...
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But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying...
JOHN GREEN It takes just a few thoughts of the people to know who they are actually, but only to a person who i...
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Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something.

Hazel Grace, tell me I hav...
JOHN GREEN

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN

By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness be...
ELLEN G. WHITE

Embrace your power. Before, when you hid your light you were safe and non-threatening. As you begin ...
KELLY MARTIN Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
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Never underestimate the power of thought; it is the greatest path to discovery.
IDOWU KOYENIKAN To say that God is sovereign is to declare that He is the Almighty, the Possessor of all power in He...
ARTHUR W. PINK The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.
JOHN HODGMAN A great future starts with what you can see
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Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
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It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

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