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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
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Although I cannot see your face
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I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the...
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Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
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If your doors keep on becoming walls, your ideas are not explosive enough...
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Next time I expect you to act a little friendlier and remember that we would like to get out of here...
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Merry Christmas.” he says quietly, pulling something from his back pocket.
I frown in confusi...
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Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I ...
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... I don't believe in ghosts - not the scary white sheet, boogie-woogie type of ghost anyway. And y...
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Man on Wire
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Everybody is on the run. Either from something or someone.
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Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow
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Look for these tubes on cellar walls, wooden posts, exterior masonry and trim around doors and windo...
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It's not worth it to build castles on the sand if they get destroyed by the waves of reality.
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Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
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Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.
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Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who a...
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Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
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Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring...
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Well, yelling real loud, that's an important skill to have, too. You never know when you might walk ...
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Non avevo niente da offrire a nessuno tranne la mia confusione.
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I am who I say I am,
I'm not some fantasy
of how you think you think you know
or who ...
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There are bullet holes in the doors and the walls
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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How to break this to him. How to let a thing be broken.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
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I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the...
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Our standard rate. A doubloon a day."
It was generous. More than generous--some families would ...
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So, regarding that tidbit about your having a fertile imagination when it comes to private activitie...
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Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.
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Maybe memories should be left the way they are.
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...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen...
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The landscape started hard, sharp black mountains over my shoulder and thirsty young saguaros huggin...
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Galatea Dunkel was a tenacious loser.
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...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a...
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"I know t...
AMAZON REVIEWER
The half-Nelson we had on him was tight. He wasn't getting out of that.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
JASPER FFORDE
What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, hear...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception
ALDOUS HUXLEY
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. The...
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The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, la...
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Whenever God closes one door He always opens another, even though sometimes it's Hell in the hallway...
UNKNOWN
When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the ...
SAM FARR
The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER
If you plan of helping you don't need of saying it, act on it.
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Oskar knew people would catch that trolley anyhow. Doors closed, no stops, machine guns on walls—i...
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In an organic system you don't waste anything. We need to educate the consumer to accept a tiny blem...
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It was so great for Doug to see the potential.
JACK EICK
Grandpa?" Declan raised his eyebrows.
"We keep him in the shed out back," Jack said helpfully. ...
ILONA ANDREWS
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
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The reward of a teacher is the smiles of today and yesterday, the grateful hearts of those young sou...
H GREYLING
Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything t...
ANTONIA PERDU
Humans are the most intelligent creation on earth, according to all those that responded to the surv...
DAVID CHARLES BONSALL
When you are doing all that you know to do

yet all hell is breaking out around you,
SANJO JENDAYI
My real mom died when I was born—hemorrhaged to death while giving birth to
me, which has nev...
DARYNDA JONES
We needed a refrigerator for our new place and I've never bought a refrigerator my whole life. I wen...
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Mass is not proportional to volume. A girl as small as a violet. A girl who moves like a flower peta...
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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Remember what you always told me.”

“Hold on tight and fight as hard as you can.
A.A. FREDA
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Our entire secondary played well. Doug did a great job on Savage. He was not a factor.
JOE PINYAN
We are living in the Selfie Society of Me.
KEN POIROT
When you focus on being the best person you can be, you draw the best possible life, love, and oppor...
GERMANY KENT
That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for wh...
JIM MORRISON
Megan Nelson was in a new position (libero) and made some stellar plays on defense.
MAGGIE ERLENBAUGH
Anyone can smile for a photo, but who is still smiling after the selfie?
KEN POIROT
People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind of...
HELEN THOMAS
There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
HANOI HANNAH
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous execution...
THOMAS PAINE
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls
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But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson an...
ALAN VEGA
The reason people will attack you never really has anything to do with you. It stems from their OWN ...
SANDRA M. MICHELLE
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
WALTER SALLES

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Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.
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As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.
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I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.
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You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
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I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
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It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
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There is no such thing as part freedom.
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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
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They just wrestled up to their potential.
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I'm not sure what he was doing.
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We're heading in the right direction.
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It brings about a special emotion.
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First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
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Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
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Me would like an invisibility cloak to get the hell out of this mess.
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The.
World.
Is.
Not.
A.
Safe.
Place.
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Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.
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It always seems impossible until it's done.
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Lead from the front — but don t leave your base behind.
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Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.
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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.
NELSON JACKSON
The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.
GEORGE NELSON
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
NELSON BOSWELL
These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the gre...
NELSON MANDELA
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
NELSON MANDELA
We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.
NELSON DEMILLE
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
NELSON HENDERSON
Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.
NELSON BOSWELL
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...
NELSON BOSWELL
What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really ...
NELSON BOSWELL
I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
LORD NELSON
I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
LORD NELSON
The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as ...
NELSON ALGREN
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in...
NELSON ALGREN
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar respo...
NELSON ALGREN
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman ...
NELSON ALGREN
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, p...
NELSON ALGREN
It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exc...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
NELSON ALGREN
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed ...
NELSON MANDELA
It always seems impossible until its done.
NELSON MANDELA
As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had ...
NELSON MANDELA
The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye c...
NELSON MANDELA
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to s...
NELSON MANDELA
I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I...
NELSON MANDELA
How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so...
NELSON MANDELA
Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.
BOB NELSON
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Af...
NELSON MANDELA
Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.
NELSON DEMILLE
My son has died of AIDS.
NELSON MANDELA