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He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies! Simone de Beauvoir
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. Aristotle
The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is nowmingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater. J. R. R. Tolkien
Walt Whitman quote: "And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many..."
And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, / No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. Walt Whitman
Scott Adams quote: "Everything he talked about had a kind of logic to it, but so..."
Everything he talked about had a kind of logic to it, but so do many things that are nonsense. Scott Adams
She found a deep sense of fitness in the fact that here, among people, they should be strangers; strangers and enemies. She thought, these people can think of many things he and I are to each other--except what we are. It made the moments she remembered greater, the moments not touched by the sight of others, by the words of others, not even by their knowledge. Ayn Rand
Virginia Woolf quote: "Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us..."
Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds... Virginia Woolf
...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation to parade it,... W. Somerset Maugham
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing. Arundhati Roy
George MacDonald quote: "Thisis another to be added to the many proofs that..."
Thisis another to be added to the many proofs that verisimilitude is notin the least an essential element of verity. George MacDonald
In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. KNOWING A MAN WELL NEVER LEADS TO HATE and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. TRY TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER! John Steinbeck
Mitch Albom quote: "But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my..."
But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration. Mitch Albom
As for the story itself, it was entitled "The Dancing Fool." Like so many Trout stories, it was about a tragic failure to communicate. Here was the plot: A flying saucer creature named Zog arrived on Earth to explain how wars could be prevented and how cancer could be cured. He brought the information from Margo, a planet where the natives conversed by means of farts and tap dancing. Zog landed at night in Connecticut. He had no sooner touched down than he saw a house on fire. He rushed into... Kurt Vonnegut
But that can never be," said Milo, jumping to his feet."Don't be too sure," said the child patiently, "for one of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might care to learn, is that many of the things which can never be, often are. You see," he went on, "it's very much like your trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where? but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for. Norton Juster
There isn't going to be a next time. I mean it, Alan," she said jerkily as he traced a line down the back of her hand with his fingertip. "I wouldn't be here if you hadn't locked me out of my house. Don't touch me that way," she added in a furious undertone."How would you like me to touch you? You have very sensitive hands," he murmured before she could answer. He grazed a thumb over her knuckle and felt the quick tremor. Tonight, he promised himself, he was going to feel that tremor again-at... Nora Roberts

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