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Related Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU If you or your child has swelling of the cheeks with fever or aches and pains then you need to see y... CLAUDIA BLACKBURN You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire o... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can y... FRAN TARKENTON If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You w... ISABEL GILLIES I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind. JAMILA WOODS Remember who you really are. You cannot be destroyed or hurt. You cannot be harmed or killed. You, t... VIRONIKA TUGALEVA If you don't have a code of ethics or moral principles that you live by no matter what the consequen... MAURICE W. LINDSAY We don’t have to take rejection as a reflection of our self-worth. If somebody who is important (o... MELODY BEATTIE Things changing, failing apart, fading, another year, a few more moves, a hard person who ... BRET EASTON ELLIS Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wrac... ANNE LAMOTT If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the ... SRI SATHYA SAI BABA Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I ... GUS VAN SANT Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness t... LOUIS DE BERNIèRES If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' te... MORTIMER J. ADLER Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read... KEVIN J. ANDERSON If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write. JOYCE RACHELLE Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of ... THEODORA GOSS 70 out of 100 people in the world cannot read... if you can read then you are the luckiest out of 2 ... CALL BAIN Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, gree... أبو حامد محمد الغزالي There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see t... MATT HAIG You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can... E. F. SCHUMACHER You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can... PETER KUMP When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are ... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Read everything! Don't just read things that are in your comfort zone or things that you think y... CASSANDRA CLARE When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is n... BARRY LONG Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometim... NEIL GAIMAN If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Re... TERRY PRATCHETT Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it. VERA FARMIGA That's why we all end up hiding and creating communes or compounds, because it's work when you go ou... BRAD PITT You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot ha... MICHAEL ONDAATJE Always be prepared one day the electricity will stop if your phone isn't charged well and you don't ... DEYTH BANGER Can you hold a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because some one wants you to do so? Then, will ... MAHAVIRA Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret does... ROGER AVARY You should read the novel in order to live, to feel, to tell someone the hidden secret of it. R... EMMA BRYNSTEIN You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know... DOUGLAS ADAMS If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you ... JOE QUEENAN If you cannot understand my argument, and declare "It's Greek to me", you are quoting Shakespeare; i... BERNARD LEVIN You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any othe... SRI CHINMOY You have to push yourself to get your heart rate up. The No. 1 thing I see is people not working at ... JENNIFER BRADLEY If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting. ITZHAK PERLMAN All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for... ISABEL ALLENDE There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that ... DORIS LESSING Life is not really what it seems like at times; what you see, hear, read or even taste isn't really ... ROSA M. BETANCES Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don'... ECKHART TOLLE Whenever someone or something makes you feel insecure or feel unsure of yourself, your self esteem w... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you want to be, if you want to see, let us read a lot, then we will have a shot! DEBASISH MRIDHA Passion and drive are not the same at all. Passion pulls you toward something you cannot resist. Dri... RANDY KOMISAR There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see 'Delivery wil... JOHN PATRICK If you read the poets of the 19th century in Latin America, you would see that Havana or Mexico City... ALVARO ENRIGUE Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you ca... THEO JAMES I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that i... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have... BARBARA DE ANGELIS No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have... BARBARA ANGELIS If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you ... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, d... JOYCE CAROL OATES There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. MATT HAIG I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John ... HILLARY CLINTON Why is it that all individuals today, at least all who are socially conscious, are in one way or ano... OLAF STAPLEDON Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your... ANGELA CARTER Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary ... CARMEN AGRA DEEDY No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you... CYNTHIA OZICK You cannot be a light to others or yourself, if you have dark intentions in your heart. KEMI SOGUNLE Empowered Women 101: Real women don't tell the world or elude to it on Pinterest, Facebook or any ot... SHANNON L. ALDER I cannot explain how two souls join. No man or element or god ever could. But you are tied to each o... KIERA CASS Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true:... DYLAN THOMAS You are always afraid that somebody may think you a fool. You are afraid that if others think you to... OSHO You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If you don't have to do it, and it isn't fun, then why are you doing it? It's like sometimes people ... AKIROQ BROST You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you ... YEVGENY ZAMYATIN You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and det... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Surrendering: The act of giving yourself entirely to a new self, and then let go of your personal fr... ROBIN SACREDFIRE You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know... DOUGLAS ADAMS When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion... ECKHART TOLLE Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you somethin... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Love yourself! You don’t need a man or a boy or a self-proclaimed love expert to tell you what you... AMY SCHUMER If you can't sell yourself, your idea, product or service, then YOU don't have a BUSINESS! Because a... KENNETH DARRYL BROWN You will never be able to see clearly when people around you distort your view of truth with their o... SHANNON L. ALDER The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep do... ECKHART TOLLE Who you are is not determined by what you wear, the money in your wallet, nor how you look. Who you ... MARY KATE Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. JOHN WITHERSPOON You do it for yourself. You don’t expect to change the world. You don’t even expect to influence... MARTIN SHEEN I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you re... WILHELM REICH Be yourself"means be true to your core identity rather than faking a different one because you think... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you are in an airport or an airplane, you need to be able to have a choice between voice or text ... FRANK NUOVO You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of you imagin... MARK TWAIN If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because s... PAULA PELL Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inwa... REBECCA PIDGEON Who you are is too vast to be captured by the reflection of a mirror, classified by the state of you... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' a... ALEXANDER BERKMAN When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' a... ALEXANDER BERKMAN Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters -- because girls can read as well as boys -- r... MERVYN GRIFFITH-JONES You do not need others to validate your self worth, you are single because you hold yourself high, u... AMELIA.W Before you fall asleep take stock of your day. Ask yourself whether it was well spent or was it wast... LATIKA TEOTIA I'm still a bit of a reading glutton, I think, because I browse, read a bit of the back copy, fl... JESMYN WARD
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If you'... DOSSIE EASTON The noontide light passing through the rib cage of Joshua trees, like morning for Matisse. MICHAEL EASTON We know that inflation distorts economic behavior. In the 1970s, a combination of high tax rates and... NINA EASTON Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Wome... NINA EASTON Some people habitually respond to a lover’s pain and confusion with an intense desire to fix somet... DOSSIE EASTON A friend of ours, when she trips over some surprisingly intense emotional response, says, philosophi... DOSSIE EASTON GREAT SLUTS are made, not born. DOSSIE EASTON Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy. (...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability. DOSSIE EASTON Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of... NINA EASTON The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of h... NINA EASTON I just don't see ABC letting go of soaps completely. MICHAEL EASTON If you want to know how Hillary Clinton could try to distance herself from President Obama's muc... NINA EASTON Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous. SHEENA EASTON The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers loo... NINA EASTON Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: ... NINA EASTON As part of the healing process, change your perception of yourself from “victim” to that of “a... DON EASTON As if reading his mind, Lily huffed. “You’re as predictable as the spring rains, son of mine, an... ELI EASTON Con la práctica, podemos desarrollar una intimidad basada en la cordialidad y respet... DOSSIE EASTON Cuando empezamos a cuestionar todas las maneras en que nos han dicho que debíamos ser, po... DOSSIE EASTON A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing. BRET HARTE One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones. BRET HARTE The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. BRET HARTE Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again. BRET HARTE My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns. BRET MICHAELS They jumped up and made shots right away on us and then we couldn't stop the bleeding. BRET CAMPBELL We certainly would like to think our size could make a difference. We do have some size for the OVC ... BRET CAMPBELL I think they are unselfish. ... I think Duncan and Reed are the glue that holds them together. BRET CAMPBELL We're usually about as good as No. 3 (Kelly) and No. 1 (Newson) are on most nights. BRET CAMPBELL We feel a lot better about ourselves. First, Jared Newsom and Jeremy Kelly have stepped back up to t... BRET CAMPBELL (Kelly) was productive early but has not been as productive late. He has a severe bruised thumb and ... BRET CAMPBELL It's a good time to freshen her up. BRET CALHOUN I had heard about this place in the past, and you knew it was like that. But, yeah, it has amazed me... BRET CALHOUN