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there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our...

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treasure is crisis, because what you get in the end is yourself.

Ed, knows power corrupts, they'll have experienced that first-hand. They'll see how I'd be tempted to use my own power for personal reasons. They may not approve of that, but they'll buy

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth...

Science has always said that it may not know everything now but it will know, eventually. But now we see that isn't true. It is an idle boast. As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off...

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.

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Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and...

Their fond Uncle Martin looked anything but gratified, but managed to control his feelings until he found himself out of earshot of his sister. He then declared that if Louisa imagined that he meant...

Do not issue many edicts, and if you do, try to make them good ones, and, above all, ones that are carried out and obeyed; for edicts that are not carried out are as good as nonexistent, and they let...

Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.

I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.

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We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

Then came the matter of food. For ten hours he picked grains of rice off the floor and collected pasta, sugar, and individual tea leaves. He would not eat anything that had been tainted with blood,...

It is a terrible thing to interrogate the shadow. Who knows what its reply will be?

Doing something positive will help turn your mood around. When you smile, your body relaxes. When you experience human touch and interaction, it eases tension in your body.

If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

Forget me now, but remember me afterwards, when the bitter part is forgotten. This

When we try to see a damaged person as one of God's regular old customers, instead of a lost cause, it takes the pressure off everybody. We can then loosen our death grip on the person, which usually...

But politeness and candour run together, when one is not fitting neither is the other. Then the occasion calls for silence, that frail partition between the ill-concealed and the ill-revealed, the...

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It's exhausting. When everything's a deliberate political stance. Even if it's interesting.

A person does not know what he thinks precisely at any time. I think as follows: I say a phrase sometimes, and while saying that phrase, I find that I understood it, but when I understand it, I think...

When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one, I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can...

I cannot locate any aestetic dignity in {Stephen} King's writing: his public could not sustain it, nor could he...Art unfortunately is rarely the fruit of earnestness, and King will be remembered as a...

He could not help himself; whether it brought him comfort or misery, he felt he had no choice now but to speak of Fraser-and Quarry was the only man in London to whom he could so speak.

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-What is your master, Sancho Amigo, it must be crazy. -How should? - Sancho replied. He owes nothing to anyone, who pays everything, and more when the currency is madness.