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• The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Beautiful, Stars, Way

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.125, Penguin

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• Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Fire, Lasts, Facts

  Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.

  George R. R. Martin

  Art, Healing, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.759, Bantam

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• He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

  Emily Bronte

  Ties, Stronger, Would Be

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.596, Penguin

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• Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Real, Fire

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2012

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• A soul is forged in the fires of adversity, not comfort.

  Jana Oliver

  Adversity, Fire, Soul

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.741, Pan Macmillan

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• You seem to forget that I'm Evie's legal guardian." "And you seem to forget that there's absolutely nothing legal about your guardianship, considering all the documents were forged.

  Kiersten White

  Forget, Guardian, Considering

  Kiersten White (2011). “Supernaturally”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

  Richard Paul Evans

  Bears, Shackles

  Richard Paul Evans (2001). “The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• For me, Modern Warfare 3 's plot makes its signature turn around the bend when Russia invades Europe. As in, all of it. Simultaneously. Now, I've never invaded Europe, except for that one time, but I would think that's a project you might want to stagger out a bit if you haven't forged an alliance with any galactic empires lately.

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Thinking, Russia, Europe

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• Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Children, Blessed, Past

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• And just as love has two sides, so too does Death. While Ismae will serve as His mercy, I will not, for that is not how He fashioned me. Every death I have witnessed, every horror I have endured, has forged me to be who I am -- Death's justice.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Who I Am, Two Sides, Justice

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• The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shaped. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Coal, Weapons, Lord

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.245, Macmillan

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• Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Winning, Iron

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• Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Blood, Alliances

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.24, Canongate Books

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• Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Andúril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out. 'Elendil!' he cried. 'I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and am called Elessar, the Elfstone, Dúnadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil's son of Gondor. Here is the Sword that was Broken and is forged again! Will you aid me or thwart me? Choose swiftly!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Son, Flames, Broken

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. That which doesn't kill us doesn't have to make us bitter, unless we let it. Those fires show us what we can survive and clear the field for new growth. For a better harvest.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Fire, Growth

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• Lux’s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t’s and b’s of her mother’s signature and then, to distinguish her own handwriting, penning her signature, Lux Lisbon, below, the two beseeching L’s reaching out for each other over the ditch of the u and barbed-wire x.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Mother, Two, Wire

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• No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell generals, and this is their top fairy, was caught caught trying to pass off forged credit slips by signing his own name.

  Eoin Colfer

  Stupid, Thinking, Names

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis Fowl: the arctic incident”, Viking

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• We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Years, Precedent, Evidence

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . . Jesus was the founder of modern business. . . he picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world!

  Paul Harding

  Jesus, Men, Organization

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• A man becomes a Mahadev, only when he fights for good. A Mahadev is not born from his mother's womb. He is forged in the heat of battle, when he wages a war to destroy evil. Har Har Mahadev - All of us are Mahadev.

  Amish Tripathi

  Mother, War, Fighting

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• Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Bears, Chains, Hardest

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy”, p.2255, Macmillan

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• There is a power in names. Olakunde told us of ashe-the power which runs through all things, subtle and flexible, which find its most potent expression in human utterance; so that it is a terrible thing to call down imprecations on an enemy, or to wish for anything but good, for what is said out loud is forged into truth.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Running, Expression, Names

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• Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy, fear, paranoia, guilt and uncertainty. Celebrities can be born overnight. Writer's can't. Writers are made - forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities - over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when you begin is not the same writer you become.

  Chuck Wendig

  Writing, Moon, Joy

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• True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

  Emma Goldman

  Rights, Broken, Feminism

  "Anarchism and Other Essays".

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