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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 It's pretty much from experience. You learn from experience. And you make mistakes ... of course you... FERGAL LAWLER Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. HARUKI MURAKAMI We looked out the ventilation of the attic, and we saw the water about a foot from the attic. Man, t... BOBBY LANE You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the insi... V.E. SCHWAB To have GOALS is like having FAITH, you know they exist, you know they are essential and you know th... MINA TADROS So, I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is,... JOHNNY CASH You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from... DAN AUERBACH I wish you could tell me where you are now. I mean, I know you’re dead, but I think there must be ... AVA DELLAIRA From mistakes you get experience, from experiments you get again expirience and there are a lot of o... DEYTH BANGER I know of no two things that can change your life like God and Education. Both transform you from th... ANONYMUS You have to know someone intimately to be able to love them. So love at first sight is a cont... DAVID MITCHELL But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind eve... MARGARET ATWOOD In order to inspire people, that's going to have to come from somewhere deep inside of you. JEFF WEINER You can run and you can hide, but you can never get away from your conscience, it will find you when... MICHAEL HAYSSUS There are all these relationships that are like cookie cutter shapes; identical and repetitive. Then... C. JOYBELL C. Deja vus aren't your past life memories but they actually are the imaginations you do inside your mi... SIDDHARTH DUBEY It isn't possible to love and part... You can transmutate love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can ne... E M FORESTER If your friendship, relationship, amorousness of that of many years has dead-ended, you feel your wo... PEX PARKER I'm not telling you, 'Never eat a hamburger.' Just eat the good ones with real beef, you know, like ... HOMER SIMPSON Living is more than just existing. When you are living you feel emotions that you may not be able to... PERKY PEPPERMINT The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into b... THE WEEKND The worst dream of the night, when you are parted from someone you love and you do not know exactly ... WHITNEY OTTO You know that you love someone when they are on your mind from the time you awake until the time you... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood. BERYL BAINBRIDGE Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood BERYL BAINBRIDGE That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,” said Snape coolly. “Five mor... J.K. ROWLING Bodies are strange. Some people have real problems with the stuff that goes on inside them. You find... NEIL GAIMAN They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You could look at someone from a distance, love them in your imagination, and see in them everything... OUSSAMA HEDHLI And then you leave the memories behind. When you look at the pictures It seems like it wa... ARZUM UZUN Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see y... ORISON SWETT MARDEN Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see... ORISON SWETT MARDEN Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see y... ORISON SWETT MARDEN We all have something we are insecure about. No matter how confident you think you may be, deep insi... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA For every person who rides with a moral high-horse, they also have a dead horse that they haven't fe... ZACK W. VAN Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like child... NEIL GAIMAN To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn&... MARIO TESTINO Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeli... MIREILLE MATHIEU If you sit still for a few minutes, the insurgents will have time to figure out where you are, that ... DOUG BROOKS Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old ... TOM TAYLOR Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, b... MARK LAWRENCE You know when you think you know someone? More than anyone in the world? You know you know them, bec... AVA DELLAIRA From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Often times, people buy tickets out of habit, and those tickets accumulate in a drawer somewhere and... KRISTEN SHEW I know you. Inside and out, Sara. I know you, and I’ve accepted it all. Every bit of the crazy. An... EMME ROLLINS Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from ... LAURA PRITCHETT I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear... AVA DELLAIRA You get a win like this, you learn from it. You learn from your mistakes and you realize you made so... IAN GOLD From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a... ERNEST HEMINGWAY You know your in love when ... All you can think about is that one special person. You can't stand t... FEMALE IMAGINATION When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. S... GILBERT HERNANDEZ And remember, also, added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, that many places you would like to see are ju... NORTON JUSTER And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are ... NORTON JUSTER Their next four years are hidden from us, but they are not hidden from you, ... You know the challen... BILLY GRAHAM Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fa... TONYA HURLEY Love is like a fire, he decided. You could try to control it, but it wasn't always possible. Sometim... LINDA LAEL MILLER This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of... SARAH DESSEN I love words, but I also love finding out that there is a word for something that you've experie... MARY ROACH Lenore, it's simply that I love you. You know that. Every fiber of your being is loved by every fibe... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your min... CAITLYN JENNER People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you und... VERONICA ROTH You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them. HARUKI MURAKAMI You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission. EDGAR BERGEN Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or ca... ROXANE GAY Let go the past. You can’t undo anything. It’s done. Forgive others, forgive yourself, learn fro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them... E.M. FORSTER Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, o... NICHOLSON BAKER The modern scientist attempts to step outside of himself in order to observe himself, an attempt tha... JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN Limitations are like mirages created by your own mind. When you realise that limitation do not exist... STEPHEN RICHARDS There's always a Justin Bieber. Ever since I've been around, there's always been one of ... KID ROCK Know that you are always safe. And also know that it's possible to move from the old to the new,... LOUISE L. HAY But hoping you never saw someone again is a damn sight different from wishing them dead. ROB THURMAN An awful lot of people have childhood memories of holidays in Cornwall, and the holidays are old-fas... MARTIN CLUNES Old relationships are like old resentments, you can't get rid of them until you let them go complete... JIM GENOVESE The world exists because your mind exists. If your mind didn’t exist, there would be no world. As ... JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something ... SEX AND THE CITY You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Message from Archangel Chamuel: "Dear One, you are so beautiful inside and out. Trust yourself with ... KIMBERLY DAWN She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like th... GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS I think I'm more grounded, you know, and I know what I want out of life and I'm, you know, my morals... BRITNEY SPEARS You know what a supernova is? It's a dead star. And yet, it is the most beautiful specimen in the un... C. JOYBELL C. Your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there and you want them to approve of y... CHUCK PALAHNIUK From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred ... ANNE RICE When you are taught that you evolved from an animal then you will act like an animal. When you know ... NORM TOMLINSON Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the exp... AL JARREAU Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? You know, when the world suddenl... KAREN MARIE MONING I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and ... FRANCIA RAISA Even though I am excited about having a break, I will miss the people. You meet people along the way... LAUREN JANSSEN Did you know that wherever you find fool's gold, real gold exists somewhere nearby? This also goes f... SUZY KASSEM The sea is full of saints. You know that? You know that: you're a big boy. The sea's ful... CHINA MIéVILLE In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when t... CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you. SAMUEL GOLDWYN When you STEPOUT, you will Stand out, when you stand out you will definitely be Noticed and when you... OSCAR BIMPONG The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you... AJAY NAIDU
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When you told someone how you felt, t... JODI PICOULT Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you... JODI PICOULT Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved y... JODI PICOULT There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations JODI PICOULT I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitti... JODI PICOULT It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did... JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee... JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ... JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar... JODI PICOULT