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There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power also saved you from possession... J. K. Rowling
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very... Cormac McCarthy
Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced. Jane Smiley
That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes. Orson Scott Card
Sylvia Plath quote: "I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and..."
I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives. Sylvia Plath
Haruki Murakami quote: "In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that..."
In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be. Haruki Murakami
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell. Haruki Murakami
Mother Teresa quote: "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across..."
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. Mother Teresa
Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many. Fernando Pessoa
All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all. Terry Eagleton
It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves not only for what you are now but for what you have the power to become. Trust in the Lord as He leads you along. He has things for you to do that you won't know about now but that will unfold later. If you stay close to Him, You will have some great adventures. You will live in a time where instead of sometimes being fulfilled, many of them will actually be fulfilled. The Lord will unfold your future bit by bit. Neal A. Maxwell
Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they take decisions that pay off. The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable approximation. Richard Dawkins
Stendhal quote: "There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of..."
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness. Stendhal
Craig Ferguson quote: "You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many..."
You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex. Craig Ferguson
The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil. Bertrand Russell

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