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Believe in yourself. Believe in your capacity to do great and good things. Believe that no mountain is so high that you cannot climb it. Believe that no storm is so great that you cannot weather it. You are not destined to be a scrub. You are a child of God, of infinite capacity. Believe that you can do it whatever it is that you set your heart on. Opportunities will unfold and open before you. The skies will clear when they have been dark with portent... He who is our Eternal Father... Gordon B. Hinckley
Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul. E. M. Forster
There are only two kinds of people in this world. The realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they are going and the dreamers have already been there. Robert Orben
Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven. Edith Wharton
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born. Homer
Man, I didnt know anything like that was going to happen! Honest, Tex, he was on something. Holy cow! I really kid, I been doing this stuff for a year now and I never saw nobody pull a gun before! God Almighty! What if he hadnt missed!' -- Lem 'He didn't.' -- Tex 'What?' -- Lem 'I said he didn't miss. He shot me and it hurts like hell.' -- Tex S. E. Hinton
...while the IMF certainly failed the people of Asia, it did not fail Wall Street - far from it. The hot money may have been spooked by the IMF's drastic measures, but the large investment houses and multinational firms were emboldened...These fun-seeking firms understood that as a result of the IMF's "adjustments," pretty much everything in Asia was now up for sale - and the more the market panicked, the more desperate Asian companies would be to sell, pushing their prices through the floor. Naomi Klein
There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time. J. M. Barrie
I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and the time is nearly up. They think that just because they have only one leader and one head, we are all like that. They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms. John Steinbeck
She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together. Anne Lamott
J. K. Rowling quote: "Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that..."
Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world. J. K. Rowling
Virginia Woolf quote: "Nothing has really happened unless it's been described [in..."
Nothing has really happened unless it's been described [in words]. Virginia Woolf
Gilles Deleuze quote: "An image of thought called philosophy has been formed..."
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking. Gilles Deleuze
Arthur Ransome quote: "Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been"
Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been Arthur Ransome
I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate. Albert Camus

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