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Related HENRY JAMES GERMANY KENT C. JOYBELL C. C. JOYBELL C. The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY NEIL GAIMAN ARTHUR MILLER GERMANY KENT Could a machine ever be said to have made its own decisions? Could a machine have beliefs? Could a m... ANDREW HODGES DEYTH BANGER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY A.A. MILNE A.A. MILNE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL CHARLES BUKOWSKI CHLOE THURLOW TAMMARA WEBBER A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA FRANCINE RIVERS When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE GERMANY KENT A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...MARYUM AHSAM MARTIN SELIGMAN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY ANNE FRANK LAUREN MYRACLE Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very compli... AUBREY DE GREY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES EDITH SITWELL DEAN KOONTZ Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH JOHN DONNE As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE C. JOYBELL C. CHRISTINA ENGELA 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It seems that I have been held in some dreaming stateFLORENCE + THE MACHINE People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man drank and became drunk, next he said, now i am delivered from my enemies and then walked into ... SOTONYE ANGA WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life's irony;Man has always falsely accused the so called devil far more than the so called devil ha... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There is no devil anywhere,for the devil is that person that refuses to do the right thing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA DEYTH BANGER STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY LEMONY SNICKET CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON C. JOYBELL C. Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM BRIAN JACQUES MARKUS ZUSAK CHRISTINA ENGELA DEBASISH MRIDHA CHARLES BUKOWSKI MATTHEW QUICK DEBASISH MRIDHA E.M. FORSTER DEYTH BANGER ALAN KAY Our metaphors for the operation of the brain are frequently drawn from the production line. We think... STEVE GRAND
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... 
We Are All Infinite 
I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud 
It is a lie. 
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all ... 
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. 
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... 
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. 
Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of ... 
There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true... 
Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... 
Mother Superior jump the gun...
All day long you sit and sew,
Listen, child—if you’re at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he’ll b... 
Love is a growing, or full constant light,
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... 
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... 
The spirit that I have seen
May be a devil, and the devil hath power
T' assume a pleasing shap... 
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... 
The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It... 
If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have... 
Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... 
Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. 
He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. 
your best men are
The voice that navigated was definitely that of a machine, and yet you could tell that the machine w... 
It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. 
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. 
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. 
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be s... 
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ... 
Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach. 
If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit... 
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur... 
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p... 
One must work and dare if one really wants to live. 
I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say. 
I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rew... 
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There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authori... 
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad j... 
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. 
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. 
The way to know life is to love many things. 
Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wris... 
One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure. 
The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies. 