I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The necessity for "professionals" in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. ~Jason Alexander
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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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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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