Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good. ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. ~Hermann Hesse
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is. ~Evan Rachel Wood
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It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good. ~Miguel Cabrera
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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I am a big horror fan. I am a genre fan. I like to make these movies. They're my favorite kinds of movies to make. ~Amber Heard
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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