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J. K. Rowling quote: "That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains..."
That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work...It would be more useful than divination, anyway... J. K. Rowling
no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
George R. R. Martin quote: "A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he..."
A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword George R. R. Martin
Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior. Jane Austen
Martha Gellhorn quote: "Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival."
Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival. Martha Gellhorn
I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it. John Steinbeck
The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals. Zig Ziglar
Gordon B. Hinckley quote: "Do your best, and be a little better than you are."
Do your best, and be a little better than you are. Gordon B. Hinckley
I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite look like yourself. And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting the wrong job, the wrong friends, who knows what-all. You could end up with somebody else's life."I shrugged again, and smiled. "This is my life," I said. "It doesn't seem like the wrong one. Michael Cunningham
Idries Shah quote: "You can keep going on much less attention than you crave."
You can keep going on much less attention than you crave. Idries Shah
Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. Alexis de Tocqueville
Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, faith-filled suffering is essential in this world for the most intense, authentic worship. When we are most satisfied with God in suffering, he will be most glorified in us in worship. Our problem is not styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for the worth... John Piper
Albert Einstein quote: "The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or..."
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. Albert Einstein
The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity. Marcus Garvey
That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions. Sherman Alexie

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