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Jodi Picoult quote: "It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's..."
It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches. Jodi Picoult
Laura Ingalls Wilder quote: "There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home."
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home. Laura Ingalls Wilder
As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Martin Luther King jr.
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing. J. K. Rowling
Nora Roberts quote: "She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and..."
She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone? Nora Roberts
Christopher Hitchens quote: "I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the..."
I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot. Christopher Hitchens
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. Brooks Atkinson
Frank Lloyd Wright quote: "A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the..."
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. Frank Lloyd Wright
I. Don't trace out your profile--forget your side view--all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other halfwho walks always next to youand tends to be who you aren't. Antonio Machado
Christina G. Rossetti quote: "I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall..."
I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all? Christina G. Rossetti
Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out. Alan Watts
L. M. Montgomery quote: "We always hate people who surprise our secret?"
We always hate people who surprise our secret? L. M. Montgomery
Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories. Jean-Paul Sartre
No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number believe their wish has been granted. W. H. Auden
The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public Adam Smith

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