Libba Bray quote: "The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance."

But why not take pride in this country? It's the envy of the world. A place where any man can realiz...
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War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is...
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I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.
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No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls,...
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I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel ...
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There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be eve...
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'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, so...
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Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; ...
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One day, Evie O'Neill, you're gonna fall head over heels for me!
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God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash.
Jennife...
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What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing...
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I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and c...
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It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's ...
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You know that moment in 'The Matrix' when Neo takes the red pill and is plunged into the rea...
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Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cu...
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Do you ever feel that way?"
"Lonely?"
I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't...
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We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, al...
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She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall...
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Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You ...
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Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.
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My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be a...
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I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.
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My whole life I’ve been ordered about. Now I shall give the orders.” I’ve never seen Felicity ...
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Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala," I say with an affected bow.
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I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick.
-Gemma Doyle Trilogy
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Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's s...
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I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who we...
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You're not a man. You're their lackey. I don't care about you, or your brother, or your ridic...
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A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, ...
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It isn't the bloody weather!"
I've shocked them into silence. I should stop. Apologize for my o...
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You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I...
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One day, as Sarita tended to the wash, Gemma played in the garden. She was a knight, you see, with a...
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Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.
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But Gemma, you could change the world."
"That should take far more than my power," I say.
...
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I know you adore Father, but he isn't the white knight you imagine him to be. He never was. True, he...
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I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.
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Perhaps this is how girls fall -- not in some crime of enchantment at the hands of a wicked ne'er-do...
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Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every...
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I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-"
"The world does not forgive mistakes ...
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I change the world, the world changes me.
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But...you could have whatever you wished."
"Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck.
"But," I ...
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I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful...
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I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, ...
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We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid,...
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My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.
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And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, tho...
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We are all unkind from time to time. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regre...
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I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I und...
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I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.
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What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed t...
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I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powe...
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I refuse to let the past find me here.
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I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly w...
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Women who have power are always feared.
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I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that...
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It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believ...
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I changed the world; the world changed me.
Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect...
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But forgiveness...I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in ...
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May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about ot...
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If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.
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There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.
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I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light yo...
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I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.
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Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held hi...
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What happens if your choice is misguided?' I ask, softly.
Miss Moore takes a pear from the bowl...
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In every end, there is also a beginning.
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How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or ...
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I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.
Because ...
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There are no safe choices. Only other choices.
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Shall I tell you a story? A new and terrible one? A ghost story? Are you ready? Shall I begin? Once ...
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There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we...
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Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.
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My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to...
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Amen, sister, ... All apologies to Tom Cruise.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest boo...
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How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked.

Will looked over the top of his spectacles....
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Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?
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Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.
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Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.
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Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"
Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thi...
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See, now I don't know whether to be all 'Yay!' because you're empowered or sad because you're having...
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Every city is a ghost.
New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel be...
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Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they c...
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Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.
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In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your ...
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A woman's reputation is her worth... IT is the way it is. You may hate me for saying so, but there i...
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You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the peop...
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We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I gu...
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You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the w...
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We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.
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I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.
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Robot. Is. Sad. Because silly bitch. Will. Not. Dance.
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In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifi...
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I'm a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera.
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When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore ...
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But we can't go back. We can only go forward.
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It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough;...
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I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing an...
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I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
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And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
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People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the tr...
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Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.
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I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion...
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Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it’s so much pressure all...
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I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish,...
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But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that...
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I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you...
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You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his...
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I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.
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There is much asked and only so much I think I can or should answer, and so, in this post I would li...
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- So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautif...
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Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damn...
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Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.
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In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.
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There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is, ... And it never stops.
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You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on you...
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People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really. I mean, maybe they know th...
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These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has no...
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We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of...
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I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at leas...
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You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that ...
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I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance ...
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Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the...
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Oh, hello," Dr. M says, shaking Balder's hand. "Wonderful costume. I'm a bit of a role player myself...
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I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what...
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Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, ...
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So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, t...
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What did I do to make Mommy leave?”
“You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.”<...
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I’m a wild girl from a cursed line of women. I paw at the ground and run under the moon. I like th...
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I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you'...
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Truth casts a spell of its own.
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I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's f...
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Write like it matters, and it will.
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She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn't seem right....
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Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high
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Mom's crying a bit, quietly, the way she always does. She never utters a sound even when she's cryin...
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Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.
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You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around ...
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The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.
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Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of...
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What frightens you?
What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch ...
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I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.
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The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.
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To those who will see, the world waits.
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Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries ...
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As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a carto...
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As I write this, we are in an especially divisive era in American politics. There are questions abou...
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What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-...
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You're perfect just the way you are...is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.
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Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Felicity and Ann hunched over their ornaments as if they were...
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Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?
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The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-s...
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Fate determines your caste. You must accept it and live according to the rules."
You can't real...
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But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can ...
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Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good...
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The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or U...
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It allows us to get that cleanup done at no cost to the taxpayers.
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When it comes to the building delays, people need to look at the long term and not just the present....
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This matter will be looked into fully. The city encourages anybody who has any info on this or any o...
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The city is fortunate to receive this money and help its residents improve their homes, improve the ...
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Whatever they want we will provide.
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When you walk off the train from New York, you see this dirt parking lot with deep ruts and tractor-...
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If you come out with an idea, people will say you are putting the cart before the horse. If you do a...
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[Mueller] has a bookstore but doesn't have enough room for storage.
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It's great to have someone who's willing to invest in New Brunswick and who believes that New Brunsw...
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They seem to be aiding and abetting the terrorists.
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Many of the founding fathers either traveled through or at some point stayed here in our city.
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Of course no one accused the old woman of being a witch. But she was foreign. Her words percolated u...
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She had powder on her from head to toe. You couldn't tell if she was black or white.
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That way, if they come back, it's technically trespassing.
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I don't know how he practices. He has adequate speed for the position when he's healthy, and anytime...
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Friends will always be there for the party. REAL friends will be there after the party...
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What happened (against Boise State) shows a lot. The way we came back and the way the offense marche...
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There's always someone there that you know that you can have fun with.
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You will be practicing with them twice a day, and they are just as good as you are. They will be jus...
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When we speak about fascism, we must not drift too far away from thinking about the people who colle...
MARK BRAY

How can you have too much employment, too much achievement?
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The tragic irony of modern anti-fascism is that the more successful it is, the more its raison d'etr...
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No. No one knows about it. Of course, some might know about it now, huh?
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The Switch Rodeo 5 - a variation of a cork was the trick that clinched it for me.
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It's a little scary because he hasn't shown he can make a tackle in the Big 12. That's an issue. It'...
CRAIG BRAY

That wasn't a good, healthy job in the first place.
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After '85, I never set foot in there again.
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We're family here. We all loved her.
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There was a mismatch of supply and demand in China before the SARS virus.
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Now, the physical part, I don't know. He hasn't shown that aggressiveness when he goes to hit you.
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They taught me a lot. I was brought up through the system by the seniors. I've played all four years...
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It's difficult to still score with double-teams and box-and-ones, but it's just another test for me....
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Last year, I didn't do much scoring, because we had people like Leonard, Sean Glenn and J.P, but I k...
JAQUAN BRAY

It was something I looked forward to. I knew what I was coming into. I knew we lost nine seniors. I ...
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We do very little, including hiring staff, without involving young people in the process.
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We haven't even begun to look at structures yet.
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Rather than threats, I'm looking at opportunities.
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It's similar to going through a death. I'm just saddened. September will never be the same in this t...
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It is difficult to have a high level of confidence about where the cell phone market is going to be ...
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People are comfortable that handset volume can grow at high single-digit rates for the next few year...
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Didn't think there could be anything worse until now.
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Indian gaming, I don't regard it as a competitive industry. Anything that helps the tribe become sel...
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