January 2012
92 posts
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“We’re all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take...”
– Libba Bray
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“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone...”
– Ralph Ellison
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“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making...”
– Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
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“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been....”
– Eve Ensler
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“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for...”
– Albert Einstein
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“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all...”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
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“I did not have all the pieces of myself intact but the shattered ones lay...”
– Ellis O’Neal
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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion,...”
– Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns Fifty
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“It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day to day basis.”
– Margaret Bonnano
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“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
– Evelyn Waugh
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“My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the...”
– Louis Riel
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“My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the...”
– Louis Riel
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“One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.”
– Elizabeth Bowen
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“Take no heed of her. She reads a lot of books.”
– Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
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“It is my fervent hope that my whole life on this earth will ever be tears and...”
– Khalil Gibran
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“The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some...”
– John Maynard Keynes
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“A city at any one point in time is a still photograph of a complex system of...”
– Janet Abu-Lughod
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“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”
– Mother Teresa
“It is crucial to recognize that each grand change in human history has shifted...”
– Adam Frank, About Time
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
– A.A.Milne
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“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want...”
– Simone de Beauvoir
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“We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.”
– Lakota Proverb
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“Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.”
– John Updike
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“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”
– Norman Cousins
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“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a...”
– Steve Jobs
“I’m not sentimental—I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to...”
– Carl Sagan
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“He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“David and I met because he was performing in a play based on short stories...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted, unbidden,...”
– Joss Whedon
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“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted, unbidden,...”
– Joss Whedon
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“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little...”
– C.S.Lewis
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“Let love be selfless, and truth fearless.”
– Allama Iqbal
“It is often those who are forced to leave who write most eloquently about the...”
– Ian R. Manners and Barbara McKean Parmenter, The Middle East: A geographic Preface
in
Understanding the Contemporary Middle East
“Life is scarier than death.”
–
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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“I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that the vast majority of the...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Our situation is the following. We are standing in front of a closed box which...”
– Albert Einstein
“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from...”
– Charles Bukowski
“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than...”
– Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots
“There’s a thin line between not listening, and not caring. I like to think that...”
– Leonard Church
“The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.”
– Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time
“It’s such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what’s lost, but to...”
– Jandy Nelson, The Sky is Everywhere
“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess...”
– Jay Asher
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“She died in my arms, saying, “I don’t want to die.” That is...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.”
– Neale Donald Walsch
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
– Charles Dudley Warner
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“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head...”
– Ann Landers 