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• It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't

  Baroness Orczy

  Simple, Knives, Finals

  Baroness Orczy (2012). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Freedom does not mean license.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, License

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.318, Routledge

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• Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moving, Leaving, Humanity

  1936 The Allegory of Love, ch.1.

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• The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Patience, Christian Inspirational, Waiting

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2007). “When You've Been Wronged: Moving From Bitterness to Forgiveness”, p.45, Moody Publishers

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• ...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?

  Jonathan Lethem

  Home, Alternatives, Rupture

  Jonathan Lethem (2010). “Chronic City”, p.341, Faber & Faber

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• I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.

  Neil Postman

  Mean, Understanding, News

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.93, Penguin

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• The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.

  Elif Safak

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• Does anyone ask you why you stay, Sean Kendrick?" "They do." "And why do you?" "The sky and the sand and the sea and Corr.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sea, Sky, Sand

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• You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that for me?" June has never looked more beautiful than she does now,unadorned and honest,vulnerable yet invincible.When lightning streaks over the sky,her dark eyes shine like gold."Because you were right,"she whispers."About all of it.

  Marie Lu

  Beautiful, Rain, Eye

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• Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. "Does nothing frighten you, sule?" "Actually, pretty much everything here does—I'm just good at ignoring the fact that I'm terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you'll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Trying, Cobblestone, Facts

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.42, Macmillan

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• It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another week!" "Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Want, Week

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.56, Macmillan

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• Raoden turned to regard the large Dula. "What does it matter? It's not like we have anything pressing to do. It's actually quite pleasant up here—you should just sit back and enjoy it." An ominous crash came from the clouds above them, and Raoden felt a wet drop splat against his head. "Fantastic," Galladon grumbled. "I'm enjoying myself already.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Clouds, Matter, Crash

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.84, Macmillan

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• Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Asking, Levels

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• A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.

  Epictetus

  Men, Long, Way

  Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.63, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

  George Orwell

  Love, Loyalty, Essence

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient regime is toppled.

  Craig Ferguson

  Men, Law, Evil

  Craig Ferguson (2007). “Between the Bridge and the River”, p.208, Chronicle Books

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• There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

  Ernest Hemingway

  People, Lucky, Tomorrow

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2842, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

  Tina Fey

  Liars, Food, Lobster

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• Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the Capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.” Annie, who's on Johanna's other side, does that thing where she covers her ears and exits reality. Finnick shoots Johanna an angry look as his arm encircles Annie. “What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy,” replies Johanna.

  Suzanne Collins

  Reality, Doctors, Cells

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.

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• I don't hate it. It does no good to hate something you can't change.

  Rachel Vincent

  Hate, Don't Hate, Can't Change

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “Prey”, p.45, MIRA

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• Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist." "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad." "That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.

  Lee Goldberg

  Miserable, Illusion, Said

  Lee Goldberg (2011). “Mr. Monk on the Couch”, p.49, Penguin

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• My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't like me, she does. This has never changed and I'm certain it never will.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, Mind, Likes

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm done waiting. Done doing things the easy way and letting things happen as they will." Her heart caught. "What does that mean?" "It means this is too important to let slip away again. You're too important." He leaned back against the truck with a low grunt of effort, eyes dark, jaw clenched. "I love you too, Tara.

  Jill Shalvis

  Love You, Heart, Mean

  Jill Shalvis (2015). “Lucky Harbor Collection 1: Simply Irresistible, The Sweetest Thing, Head Over Heels”, p.384, Hachette UK

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• No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

  John Stuart Mill

  May, Firsts, Duty

  John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Surprise

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