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Margaret Atwood quote: "They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though..."
They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though if they'd been different people they might have been happier. Margaret Atwood
I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love? Meg Cabot
John C. Maxwell quote: "I want to make a difference with people who want to make a..."
I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference. John C. Maxwell
I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other. Salman Rushdie
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed. Louisa May Alcott
Helen Gurley Brown quote: "The only thing that separates successful people from the ones..."
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard. Helen Gurley Brown
If you were a boy and a girl and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if you could show it, then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you. They sorted it out so you could have a few years together before you began your donations. Kazuo Ishiguro
Terry Prachett quote: "Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think..."
Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around. Terry Prachett
There are people who wring their hands and call it an abyss, but do nothing to fill it; there are also those who work to widen it, as if the scientist and literary man belong to two different human subspecies, reciprocally incomprehensible, fated to ignore each other and not apt to engage in cross-fertilization. Primo Levi
What is Big Government but the Executive’s cocaine dream, an activity devoted solely to jockeying for position, in which he may find license for malversation, and may take the company treasury and direct it toward those people who will support his continued incumbency--it is within the law. Its street name is ‘earmarks,’ but it is theft. David Mamet
I send a silent thank-you to Dalton for suggesting I wash off the makeup. How ridiculous, how perverse I would feel presenting that painted Capitol mask to these people. The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me, why I belong to them. Suzanne Collins
Jodi Picoult quote: "It was simply what happened when the histories of two people..."
It was simply what happened when the histories of two people dovetailed into one. Jodi Picoult
Stephen Hawking quote: "The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always..."
The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves Stephen Hawking
Andy Rooney quote: "Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's..."
Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for. Andy Rooney
Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected, unchanged, even though they hadn't seen each other for twenty years. Haruki Murakami

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