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• The word landed with a stony thud Onto my still-beating breast. Nevermind, I was prepared, I will manage with the rest. I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again. . . But how. The hot summer rustles Like a carnival outside my window; I have long had this premonition Of a bright day and a deserted house.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Summer, Memories, Long

  Anna Akhmatova, “Requiem”

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• We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Memorial Day, Peace

  Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”

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• To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

  Mitch Albom

  Way, Be Prepared, Involved

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.81, Broadway Books

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• Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.

  Melina Marchetta

  Doors, Next, Worst

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.285, Penguin UK

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• If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Lost Love, If You Love Someone

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• A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Toil, Fool

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Running, Rivers, Chance

  Kenneth Oppel (2005). “Skybreaker”, HarperCollins

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• God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Path, Omen, Left

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• Ah," said the magus, understanding at once. "I see that he means to be prepared if he meets him again." "Surely that's unlikely," said Sounis. "I don't think unlikely means to him what it does to the rest of us," said the magus.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Mean, Thinking, Understanding

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• As long as you like me the best. And you think I’m good-looking—sort of. I’m prepared to be annoyingly persistent.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, Long, Black

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• I have a flamthrower. (Zarek) You have a what? (Astrid) It pays to be prepared. (Zarek) Well. Those are nice for toasting marshmallows, but they’ll only make Thanatos mad. Regular fire won’t hurt him. I have this really neat gelatinous goo that comes out with my fire and it squirts my victims so that it don’t come off. Wanna see it? (Simi) No! (Zarek/Astrid) No? I don’t like that word. (Simi) We love you, Simi. We’re just scared of your goo. (Astrid) Oh, that I understand. Okay, you can live. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Nice, Love You

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• We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.

  David Rockefeller

  New York, Grateful, Past

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• The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

  Umberto Eco

  Knowledge, Intelligent, People

  Umberto Eco (2013). “Serendipities: Language and Lunacy”, p.20, Columbia University Press

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• There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

  Laura Lippman

  Eating, Don't Trust, Cooks

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• Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Flower, Wine, Mean

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.87, Random House

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• He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Men, Care, Action

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• To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

  Bell Hooks

  Love, Believe, Giving

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• The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mistake, Race, Gun Control

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• [Kenny] leaned back against the counter and studied the other man. “So Dex, how’s come you’re still alive to tell the tale?” Dexter wiped up a small coffee spill, the sat on the stool next to Torie. “All I’m prepared to say is that your sister and I slept together, and, since I compromised her, I intend to marry her.” Torie dropped her forehead and banged it three times against the countertop. “You are such a geek.” “Doesn’t sound like she’s too enthusiastic about it,” Kenny said.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Coffee, Men, Together

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• Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.

  Susan Wittig Albert

  Real, Lying, Mean

  Susan Wittig Albert (2009). “Wormwood”, p.35, Penguin

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• One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Believe, Be Prepared

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me

  Alicia Keys

  Giving Up, Air, Sky

  Song: Un-Thinkable, 2009

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• If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me.

  Ai Yazawa

  Dream, Stronger, Tears

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• If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty - by forms I am referring to coherent systems of hypothesis, axioms, etc. - to forms that no one has previously encountered, we cannot help thinking that they are "true," that they reveal a genuine feature of nature... You must have felt this too: The almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of relationships which nature suddenly spreads out before us and for which none of us was in the least prepared.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Thinking, Simplicity, Etc

  "Bittersweet Destiny: The Stormy Evolution of Human Behavior". Book by Del Thiessen, 1995.

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• We have to be prepared for change.

  Paulo Coelho

  Be Prepared

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.8, Harper Collins

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