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• look
• time
• progress

He looked at her defiantly, and she thought: and so one at a time we all become human—human werewolves, human dwarfs, human trolls …the melting pot melts in one direction only, and so we make progress. Terry Prachett

• important people
• importantly
• teeth

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth George Washington

• god
• dream
• words

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world Alphonse de Lamartine

• knowledge
• believe
• training

They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. Frank Herbert

• best
• best friend
• death

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead. Neil Gaiman

• time
• bar
• dance

His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot holdanything else. It seems to him there area thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world. As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft stridesis like a ritual dance around a centerin which a mighty will stands paralyzed. Only at times, the curtain of the pupilslifts, quietly. An image enters in, rushes down through the tense, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone. Rainer Maria Rilke

• wellness
• prays
• use

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment. Leo Tolstoy

• sick
• different
• humanity

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion mixes explosively with (and gives strong sanction to) both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today. Without a doubt it is the prime aggravator of the Middle East. Those of us who have for... Richard Dawkins

• decision
• my friend
• doubt

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions. Carlos Castaneda

• life
• sea
• must

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. Gustave Flaubert

• good
• silence
• humanity

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• inspirational
• time
• waste

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. Paulo Coelho

• kindness
• everyday
• church

I suddenly knew that religion, God - something beyond everyday life - was there to be found, provided one is really willing. And I saw that though what I felt in the church was only imagination, it was a step on the way; because imagination itself can be a kind of willingness - a pretence that things are real, due to one's longing for them. Dodie Smith

• waiting
• time
• your life

It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them. David Herbert Lawrence

• life
• saying
• book

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own. Julian Barnes