Charlotte Observer quote: "In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whose streets are paved with gold, and that's none of the law's business. But if he promises an annual free stay in a luxury hotel on Earth, he'd better have the rooms available."

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GARY F EVANS...

If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
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Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
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JUSTIN PYFROM

He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
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C. JOYBELL C.

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HARUKI MURAKAMI

Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

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This is the spot where I will lie
When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
SARA TEASDALE

I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert....
LEV GROSSMAN

I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud
NEIL GAIMAN

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IN THE MAKING

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MADELEINE L'ENGLE

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The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
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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.
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TIM WAGNER

Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
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Teach only love for that is what you are.
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Only my condemnation injures me.
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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES

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Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
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CALVIN WILSON

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GARY F EVANS...

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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

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ANKITA SINGHAL

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MARK HELPRIN

Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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A.A. MILNE

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STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We Are All Infinite
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY

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STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY

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STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Freedom of mind is the real freedom.
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B.R. AMBEDKAR

Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
DOROTHY PARKER

An observer who is sitting eccentrically on the disc K' is sensible of a force which acts outwards i...
ALBERT EINSTEIN

We're always taught that God wants us to always only say "I can't do this without You God" , "Whatev...
C. JOYBELL C.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
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FRANCINE RIVERS

An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER

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JOHN GREEN

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played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA

In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whose streets are paved with gold, and that's none of the law's business. But if he promises an annual free stay in a luxury hotel on Earth, he'd better have the rooms available.

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