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Related SCOTT STABILE I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humble... HEIDI BAKER Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ... SUI HE Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota... FENG HE As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv... SUI HE I like to find old thingsLI HE These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more... FENG HE The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ... FENG HE They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa... HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re... HE YAFEI The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin... HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act. HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods. HE YAFEI Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ... HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today. HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties. HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university. HE WEIFANG The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have... HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w... HE FAN Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined. HE CHANGCHUI Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required. HE CHANGCHUI THOMAS WOLFE CASSANDRA CLARE GASTON LEROUX CRAIG GROESCHEL I shared with him I understood the dilemma he was in — that no matter what decision he made, his o... DAN PATRICK It reminded him of the truth—who he really was, and the fact that no matter how far he ran, his pa... KAYLA KRANTZ GASTON LEROUX One of her arms was around his waist as her eyes fluttered open. He found himself lost in limpid blu... CAROLYN JEWEL J.K. ROWLING SUZANNE COLLINS If he had learned anything from his parents, he learned that business was a matter of relationships. T.J. STILES If we knew and if he knew (who killed Moxley), he would be the first one to rat the person out, no m... MICKEY SHERMAN ...Goddamn himself for letting his independence slip away from him. He didn't even know how it had h... KIMBERLY GARDNER He always thought of everybody but himself. All through high school he was always the one who would ... DOROTHY MILLER DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS MICHAEL ENDE GARTH RISK HALLBERG SHERWOOD ANDERSON FLANNERY O'CONNOR JULIA QUINN DADA BHAGWAN All his life Harry Bosch believed he had a mission. And to carry out that mission he needed to be bu... MICHAEL CONNELLY J.K. ROWLING PATTI SMITH Later, holding Milo’s hand in the dark, Jacob felt that it was only in recovering it that he learn... CALEB CRAIN C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But... ROY L. PICKERING JR. Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed th... FARAAZ KAZI You always got the sense that Irving was performing himself. He had a very strong sense of himself a... BRIAN TREHEARNE He wrestled with it the rest of the year, but there was a point where he wanted to quit. I was talki... CHAD POWELL W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM If he played in a system where he had to constantly have his back to the basket, he would not have b... DAVE ROGERS The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. ... UMBERTO ECO J.K. ROWLING TRENTON LEE STEWART His self-esteem wasn't high, and he was trying to reflect too much on the things he didn't do well. ... BOB HURLEY PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP PAUL AUSTER MICHAEL ENDE OSHO He was in conflict with himself. There was no enjoyment in the thought that he had escaped a great d... NORBERT JACQUES I was frustrated that just because of his name, he was getting all this ink. All he had to do was re... BYRON KOSTE FLANNERY O'CONNOR C.S. LEWIS VICTORIA SCHWAB STEFAN ZWEIG COCO J. GINGER It was strictly his decision. We did his evaluation before Christmas, and he said he was thinking ab... GARY CLAUSEN He was always working a little harder than everybody else. He had that little extra drive to be bett... GREG BURKE JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he h... ALICE MILLER HILARY MANTEL GEORGE MACDONALD HANYA YANAGIHARA Everybody else would take the chance to go to college. They look at the Marines as some hard-nosed s... DALLAS BAKER CARL R. ROGERS PAUL BOWLES He was just the kind of guy, when the neighbors needed help, he was the guy who would go, no matter ... KAREN SHINKLE WENDELL BERRY G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG He said he loved his son, that he'd just had a one-year birthday, so we started working that angle, ... TONY GOMEZ LAURIE COLWIN JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE WOODROW WILSON He's got everything else. He's got he momentum. He's got the talent to do it. And he wanted to do it... JOSE RIJO JOHANN VON GOETHE D.H. LAWRENCE His mom was everything. No matter where he was or what he was doing, if his mom called him he would ... BERNIE FEI Judge a person not by how he treats you, but how he treats others. The former reflects what he wants... BETTY JAMIE CHUNG He died sober. He died clean for the rest of his life. He ended his life the way we wanted him to be... WALLIS HUTCHKO CARSON MCCULLERS EARTHA KITT With his head thrust forward like a ram, Baryba pushed his way through to the front. For some reason... YEVGENY ZAMYATIN NEIL GAIMAN Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to ... ANNE HOLM [But] he could never take an audience seriously. If he took their advice, what they liked, that woul... BARRY MILES H.G. WELLS WILLIAM BARRETT JAMES DASHNER I have heard that he said he was not going to spend the rest of his life in prison, that he was goin... EDWARD GONZALEZ
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He used to hide his true self because he feared people wouldn’t like him, or would judge him for b... 
He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out abo... 
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Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like ever... 
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. 
And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stoo... 
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He tried to remember Moon Child's eyes, but was no longer able to. He was sure of only one thing: th... 
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The park was the heart of the city. He had come to the city – and with a knowing in his blood – ... 
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He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’... 
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His friends told him that nobody was interested in his goddam soul unless it was the priest and he m... 
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They speak very well of you".
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A smart model is a good model. 
Never dull your shine for somebody else. 
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Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that,” Garrett said gruffly. “You’ll have me convinced ... 
I know this woman.”
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He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it. 
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