Hb Quotes

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How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding. "The Ministry's providing a couple of cars," said Mr. Weasley. Everyone looked up at him. "Why?" said Percy curiously. "It's because of you, Perce," said George seriously. "And there'll be little flags on the hoods, with HB on them-" "-for Humongous Bighead," said Fred.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3))
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I hate when I look in my closet and find clothes instead of Narnia.
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H.B. Bolton
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Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.
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H.B. Bolton
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She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart.
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Mrs. Henry H.B. Paull (The Snow Queen (With Original Illustrations))
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A story just isn't a story without a dragon.
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H.B. Bolton
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Hatred blinds men and justifies murder. But most of all, hatred lies.
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H.B. Moore (Finding Sheba (An Omar Zagouri Thriller #1))
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Art and literature are curses that we love.-Aron Micko H.B
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Aron Micko H.B (Endless Extremity: The Origin)
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Patiently Waiting" My eyes caught up the lonely sky; How patiently waiting to see them cry; I want hot beverages it's best to buy; Yet it's been a year since the long dry. Date: 11162021 By:Aron Micko H.B
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Aron Micko H.B (Unknown Century: Endless Extremity Sequel)
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Resent you? I love you.
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H.B. Pattskyn (Bound: Forget Me Knot)
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Our preaching is not the reason the Word works. The Word is the reason our preaching works.
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H.B. Charles Jr. (On Preaching: Personal & Pastoral Insights for the Preparation & Practice of Preaching)
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The Cycle" Sun is always reborn; Grab the golden corn; The ants are wellborn; Cycle movement is sworn; Date:11162021 By: Aron Micko H.B
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Aron Micko H.B (Unknown Century: Endless Extremity Sequel)
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Bright" Go! It's time to ignite; Turn down the fright; Your keen eyes bright; Everything is alright. Date: 11162021 By: Aron Micko H.B
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Aron Micko H.B (Unknown Century: Endless Extremity Sequel)
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Run" If you say it's addition; We challenge ambition; Some are hard condition; Run and fulfill the mission. Date: 11162021 By: Aron Micko H.B
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Aron Micko H.B (Unknown Century: Endless Extremity Sequel)
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The true reader no longer needs numbers on the pages. They only need Dot Break.- Aron Micko H.B
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Aron Micko H.B (Endless Extremity: The Origin)
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Stephen, no matter what happens don't open that door." "Why? What's there?" "Mistake.
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Aron Micko H.B (Unknown Century: Endless Extremity Sequel)
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DOT BREAK When you want to stop for a while.
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Aron Micko H.B (Endless Extremity: The Origin)
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DOT BREAK- When you want to stop for a while.
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Aron Micko H.B (At the Back)
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Soul and Pen" My white soul stop for something; The black pen started to do a thing; My few thoughts wait for the timing; Happy to catch a glimpse it's coming. Date: 11162021 By:Aron Micko H.B
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Aron Micko H.B (Unknown Century: Endless Extremity Sequel)
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Why are you scared?” β€œBecause I feel like a total freak for wanting this stuff. Only when I’m with you… when I’m with you it’s not scary and I don’t feel like a freak. With you it all feels right.” β€œDamn.
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H.B. Pattskyn (Bound: Forget Me Knot)
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Powerful feeling, having a man’s nuts in your mouth, isn’t it, boy?” Henry said. β€œSometimes when a guy’s got me like you do now, I have to ask myself which one of us is really in charge. Is it me, ’cause you’re kneeling there with your hands behind your back, or is it you, ’cause if you wanted to, you could seriously hurt me?
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H.B. Pattskyn (Bound: Forget Me Knot)
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I just meant you're addictive. You need to come with a warning label." Carly
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H.B. Heinzer (Breaking the Rules (Back to Brooklyn, #2))
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You are the only woman I've ever loved. I think I loved you even before we were a couple. I know I loved you when I shouldn't have. I never stopped loving you." Micah
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H.B. Heinzer (Bent (Back to Brooklyn, #1))
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I want more" she pleaded. Her hips arching to meet the thrusting of his hand. "Adam I need you" - Carly
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H.B. Heinzer (Breaking the Rules (Back to Brooklyn, #2))
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If there isn’t some sort of rule about annoying kid brothers growing up to be walking, talking sex, there should be. ~Carly
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H.B. Heinzer (Breaking the Rules (Back to Brooklyn, #2))
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Amber has a black belt in insensitivity, which she often mistakes for constructive criticism.
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H.B. Gilmour (Baldwin from Another Planet (Clueless, #8))
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Testy McTesterson (Woohoo)
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HB: So why does a person get involved with someone who’s entirely wrong for him? NG: I think the answer, quite simply, is that you don’t always get to decide to whom you give your heart.
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Hy Bender (The Sandman Companion)
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Because of you, Perce,” said George seriously. β€œAnd there’ll be little flags on the hoods, with HB on them —” β€œβ€” for Humongous Bighead,” said Fred. Everyone except Percy and Mrs. Weasley snorted into their pudding.
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J.K. Rowling
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As you, my fans, know I’m scheduled to play in Greensboro, North Carolina this Sunday. As we also know, North Carolina has just passed HB2, which the media are referring to as the β€˜bathroom’ law. HB2 β€” known officially as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act β€” dictates which bathrooms transgender people are permitted to use. Just as important, the law also attacks the rights of LGBT citizens to sue when their human rights are violated in the workplace. No other group of North Carolinians faces such a burden. To my mind, it’s an attempt by people who cannot stand the progress our country has made in recognizing the human rights of all of our citizens to overturn that progress. Right now, there are many groups, businesses, and individuals in North Carolina working to oppose and overcome these negative developments. Taking all of this into account, I feel that this is a time for me and the band to show solidarity for those freedom fighters. As a result, and with deepest apologies to our dedicated fans in Greensboro, we have canceled our show scheduled for Sunday, April 10th. Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry β€” which is happening as I write β€” is one of them. It is the strongest means I have for raising my voice in opposition to those who continue to push us backwards instead of forwards.
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Bruce Springsteen
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Chapter XIII "The Present Flame" The blunders I made have been etched on my sense over and over again, and have oftentimes blamed myself. Urge to wrap my face with embarrassment. Anything favorable, put into my mind is enfold and it is still thwarted by a pessimistic viewpoint. Moreover been imprisoned here in my cabin for one year. I like to always lie down extremely when the environment is cold. I invariably fall over senseless and that is one of the things that makes me delighted every day. I can blast. But I ain't a hero who saves the needy or battles harm humans.
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Aron Micko H.B (Endless Extremity: The Origin)
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I don't think there was ever a time when I didn't love you. You've bent the hell out of my heart but for whatever twisted reason, I never stopped loving you." Julia
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H.B. Heinzer (Bent (Back to Brooklyn, #1))
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You deserve a man who can kiss you every morning when you wake up, and every night before you go to sleep." Adam
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H.B. Heinzer (Breaking the Rules (Back to Brooklyn, #2))
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I think part of me has been in love with you most of my life." Adam
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H.B. Heinzer (Breaking the Rules (Back to Brooklyn, #2))
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I trust you Micah. I just don't trust myself." Julia
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H.B. Heinzer (Bent (Back to Brooklyn, #1))
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There's nowhere else I'd rather be. I will always be there when you need me." Adam
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H.B. Heinzer (Breaking the Rules (Back to Brooklyn, #2))
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I keep thinking it's not healthy to miss someone as much as I miss you" Julia
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H.B. Heinzer (Bent (Back to Brooklyn, #1))
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One word came to mind: pee-yew. Evan tried to place the odor; it wasn’t a heap of decayed garbage or that of a spoiled fish. Truth be told, he smelled like rotten cheese.
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H.B. Bolton (The Serpent's Ring (Relics of Mysticus, #1))
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Good books are like old friends. Sometimes you have to check back in on them, see how they're doing, even if you know nothing's really changed.
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H.B. Pattskyn (Hanging by the Moment)
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I need you the way, this world needs air, sun and water
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H.B. Moore
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If there was one thing her father told her must come first, it was dutyβ€”both a burden and blessing for a queen.
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H.B. Moore (Finding Sheba (An Omar Zagouri Thriller #1))
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Believe it or not time does pass and time does heal
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H.B Everest (Day 101)
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Time doesn't exist when in love or when in grief
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H.B Everest (Day 101)
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I am convinced that life's cruelest tragedy is that grandparents don't live forever
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H.B Everest (Day 101)
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What is life other than the adventure of a lifetime?
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H.B Everest (Day 101)
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Some people do respect but don't support you and some people support you but don't respect you." -Aron Micko H.B
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Aron Micko H.B
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Worthwhile" Your Smile, Your voice, Your style, Your love, It's above. -Aron Micko H.B
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Aron Micko H.B
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Masayang ingay ang buhay.
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Aron Micko H.B
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What is my Phone Number
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Redzuan (Industri perkhidmatan 1990-an: Komunikasi perdagangan dan pelancongan : Seminar Kebangsaan Industri Perkhimatan dalam tahun 1990-an, 28-29hb., Julai ... kerja / Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia))
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When lion saddled for hunt, he outfitted by bow and arrow to guard himself
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H.B. Ida
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I will love you until the day I die. Then I will love you some more
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HB Morris
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And morning promises outside adventures; night brings peaceful dreams inside.
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Aron Micko H.B
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Diligence defeats discouragement.
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H.B. Charles Jr. (It Happens After Prayer: Biblical Motivation for Believing Prayer)
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Do not pretend that you will never die.
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Aron Micko H.B
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My original intention with The 4-Hour Workweek (4HWW), The 4-Hour Body (4HB), and The 4-Hour Chef (4HC) was to create a trilogy themed after Ben Franklin’s famous quote: β€œEarly to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” People constantly ask me, β€œWhat would you put in The 4-Hour Workweek if you were to write it again? How would you update it?” Ditto for 4HB and 4HC. Tools of Titans contains most of the answers for all three.
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Timothy Ferriss (Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers)
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His conversion to Christianity seems to have come about largely by thinking...It did not come by sudden intuition, or overwhelming vision, or even by the more usual path of conviction of sin calling for repentance and atonement.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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Rumah dan hatiku selalu terbuka bagi siapa saja yang ingin belajar hidup dan memulainya dari dasar! Tetapi kau akan menjumpai rumah dan hatiku tertutup bila kau sekedar untuk mengetuk dan turut memetik segalanya yang tinggal dipetik
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H.B. Supiyo
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The sequined trim on her gangrenous dress was a big mistake. Under the glaring studio lights, she flashed like a tour bus full of camera buffs every time she moved. Some of her audience had already resorted to sunglasses and tennis visors.
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H.B. Gilmour (Baldwin from Another Planet (Clueless, #8))
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Evan ran his finger across the faded leather spines. He laughed at how silly some of the names were: Paint Your Roses Red, Edelweiss and Me, World of Mushrooms and Fungi, The Toadstool Diaries, Daffodils Unseen and Exotic Plants Unleashed, to name but a few.
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H.B. Bolton (The Serpent's Ring (Relics of Mysticus, #1))
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Fine scholar though he was, he was an even better teacher; and it may truly be said of him...that in turning men's minds to the Middle Ages he 'stimulated their mental thirst...silently indoctrinating them with nobler ideas, which might afterwards be appealed to as first principles'.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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O Lord, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all.… β€”Psalm 104:24 (NAS) In her intriguing book What’s Your God Language? Dr. Myra Perrine explains how, in our relationship with Jesus, we know Him through our various β€œspiritual temperaments,” such as intellectual, activist, caregiver, traditionalist, and contemplative. I am drawn to naturalist, described as β€œloving God through experiencing Him outdoors.” Yesterday, on my bicycle, I passed a tom turkey and his hen in a sprouting cornfield. Suddenly, he fanned his feathers in a beautiful courting display. I thought how Jesus had given me His own show of love in surprising me with that wondrous sight. I walked by this same field one wintry day before dawn and heard an unexpected huff. I had startled a deer. It was glorious to hear that small, secret sound, almost as if we held a shared pleasure in the untouched morning. Visiting my daughter once when she lived well north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska, I can still see the dark silhouettes of the caribou and hear the midnight crunch of their hooves in the snow. I’d watched brilliant green northern lights flash across the sky and was reminded of the emerald rainbow around Christ’s heavenly throne (Revelation 4:3). On another Alaskan visit, a full moon setting appeared to slide into the volcanic slope of Mount Iliamna, crowning the snow-covered peak with a halo of pink in the emerging light. I erupted in praise to the triune God for the grandeur of creation. Traipsing down a dirt road in Minnesota, a bloom of tiny goldfinches lifted off yellow flowers growing there, looking like the petals had taken flight. I stopped, mesmerized, filled with the joy of Jesus. Jesus, today on Earth Day, I rejoice in the language of You. β€”Carol Knapp Digging Deeper: Pss 24:1, 145:5; Hb 2:14
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Guideposts (Daily Guideposts 2014)
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It’s like living with fire in my chest. Maybe it was Fifi. Or Dickers. Or H.B. 28. I don’t know what sparked it, but suddenly everything’s different. Everything feels huge and momentous and terrifyingly real. And I can’t seem to push it to the background. I can’t put the fire out. I don’t think I want to put the fire out.
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Becky Albertalli (Yes No Maybe So)
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Prediabetes is easily identified through clinical measurements such as insulin resistance, fasting glucose levels, and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c, often abbreviated to A1c). Unfortunately, we act on these measurements far less frequently than we should. Early interventions are far easier and far more effective than the more complex and generally ineffective therapies available to treat advanced diabetes. In most cases, all it takes to reverse prediabetes are some straightforward lifestyle choices, including a decrease in dietary sugar and an increase in exercise. These changes require some discipline but are generally simple and even pleasurable.
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Leroy Hood (The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands)
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Prayer is our Christian duty. It is an expression of submission to God and dependence upon Him. For that matter, prayer is arguably the most objective measurement of our dependence upon God. The things you pray about are the things you trust God to handle. The things you neglect to pray about are the things you trust you can handle on your own.
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H.B. Charles Jr.
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Is their average blood glucose a little bit high? Are they β€œspiking” above 160 mg/dL more often than I would like? Or could they perhaps tolerate a little bit more carbohydrate in their diet? Not everyone needs to restrict carbohydrates; some people can handle more than others, and some have a hard time sticking to severe carbohydrate restriction. Overall, I like to keep average glucose at or below 100 mg/dL, with a standard deviation of less than 15 mg/dL.[*5] These are aggressive goals: 100 mg/dL corresponds to an HbA1c of 5.1 percent, which is quite low. But I believe that the reward, in terms of lower risk of mortality and disease, is well worth it given the ample evidence in nondiabetics and diabetics alike.
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Peter Attia (Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity)
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My goal is to sweep the reader away from his world and bring him along for the adventure. Learning something new shouldn’t feel like work, nor should today’s younger reader be underestimated. If done correctly, there is no need to β€œdumb down” the plot or simplify words. When someone tells me he thought The Serpent’s Ring was easy to read, I know I succeeded in my storytelling.
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H.B. Bolton
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A, B, C, D in some TIME By: Aron Micko H.B Alarming bomb during wartime. Arguing voices during nighttime. Asking forgiveness in a short time. Avoiding conflicts until the end of time. Bleeding normal people, not in crime. Balancing one world in just one time. Bombing violently during downtime. Beginning destruction in our mealtime. Calming that there is peacetime. Calling for humility to show time. Calculating the peace over time. Collecting for nothing is a part-time. Dreaming of using gadgets every time. Developing our sadness in daytime. Dropping our problems for longtime. Dying obligations in real lifetime. 3/7/22
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Aron Micko H.B
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he gave an account of the Spenserian world that championed its ethical attitudes as well as their fairy-tale terms, with a rich joy in the defeat of dragons, giants, sorcerers, and sorceresses by the forces of virtue; it was a world he could inhabit and believe in as one inhabits and believes a dream of one's own; its knights, dwarfs, and ladies were real to him...he rejoiced as much in the ugliness of the giants and in the beauty of the ladies as in their spiritual significances, but most of all in the ambience of the faerie forest and plain that, he said, were carpeted with a grass greener than the common stuff of ordinary glades; this was the reality of grass, only to be apprehended in poetry: the world of the imagination was nearer to the truth than the world of the senses, notwithstanding its palpable fictions, and Spenser transcended sensuality by making use of it
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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On one occasion he was dining with me in Exeter college, placed on the right of the Rector. Rector Marett was a man of abundant geniality and intelligence...Presently he turned to Lewis and said: 'I saw in the papers this morning that there is some scientist-fellah in Vienna, called Voronoff - some name like that - who has invented a way of splicing the glands of young apes onto old gentlemen, thereby renewing their generative powers! Remarkable, isn't it?' Lewis thought. 'I would say "unnatural".' 'Come, come! "Unnatural"! What do you mean, "unnatural"? Voronoff is a part of Nature isn't he? What happens in Nature must surely be natural? Speaking as a philosopher, don't you know...I can attach no meaning to your objection; I don't understand you!' 'I am sorry, Rector; but I think any philosopher from Aristotle to - say - Jerremy Bentham, would have understood me.' 'Oh, well, we've got beyond Bentham by now, I hope. If Aristotle or he had known about Voronoff, they might have changed their ideas. Think of the possibilities he opens up! You'll be an old man yourself, one day.' 'I would rather be an old man than a young monkey.' We all laughed at this pay-off line, but behind the wit and the thinking-power lay the puritan strength; because he could also laugh, it seemed warm and humane; but it was unbending.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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They had a very pleasant evening out together in Shrewsbury – she was lovely to him, they chatted to mutual acquaintances, laughed, drank quite a bit of wine. They settled into a relaxed mood together – Jason wondering why it couldn’t always be that way; and, in fact, she had closed down again by the time they were walking back to his flat, with a bag of chips shared between them. Something sparked the subject of family once more. He joked about one day being invited to meet her parents. β€˜There you go again!’ she snapped. β€˜It’s not as if you’re a serious boyfriend, or anything.’ He stopped dead, other revellers had to swerve around them. β€˜Why do you say that? I know I’m serious about this. I just don’t get you at all.’ Her expression told him that she was not willing to discuss it. He threw the remnants of the chips into a plastic bin. β€˜Adelaide, we’re so good together. We are, aren’t we? Admit it.’ β€˜All right, I admit it. I do want you, Jason. Just not in the way you want.’ β€˜I know I don’t pressure you. God, I put up with so much crap from you. Just spell it out to me. What is your problem?’ By some miracle of logistics, two police officers happened to be passing along the pedestrianised road. Adelaide used their presence as a way of ending the discussion, β€˜Jason, you’re making a scene. I’m going home alone.’ β€˜Adelaide!’ β€˜Let’s leave it for now, Jason.’ β€˜Adelaide!’ She skipped away into groups of passers-by. Infuriated beyond belief by her once more, Jason punched the plastic bin, causing a huge dent. The policemen looked over their shoulders briefly, but then continued on.
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HB Morris
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Passion is not a substitute for clarity. Volume is not a substitute for content. Emotion is not a substitute for conviction.
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H.B. Charles Jr.
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There are several isoforms of globin proteins in hemoglobin. The most common isoforms are designated alpha (a), beta (b), gamma (g), and delta (d), depending on the structure of the chain. Most adult hemoglobin (designated HbA) has two alpha chains and two beta chains, as shown. However, a small portion of adult hemoglobin (about 2.5%) has two alpha chains and two delta chains (HbA2 ).
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Dee Unglaub Silverthorn (Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach)
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We can bleed for days And not miss a beat. Girls are Supernatural.
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H.B. Barstrum (Simple Truths About Women and Men: Haiku Poetry Collection Book #4)
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The famous Isa 7:14 prophecy of a virginal conception (Matt 1:23) is forward-looking, but the fact that the son was to be born in Ahaz's day (Isa 7:15-16) implies at least a provisional fulfillment in Isaiah's lifetime. Probably β€œvirgin” (Hb. 'almah) meant simply β€œa young woman of marriageable age,” and the promised son was Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz (8:3). Yet in the larger context of Isaiah 7-9, the son to be born who will be called Immanuel (β€œGod with us,” as in 7:14; 8:8) is also identified as β€œMighty God” (9:6). The Septuagint later translated Isa 7:14 with a Greek word (parthenos) that more strictly referred to a woman who had never had sex.
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Craig L. Blomberg (Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey)
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In peace he lived; In peace he died; Life was our desire, But God denied.
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Harry Brodribb Irving (A Book of Remarkable Criminals)
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Lewis said sadly to me, 'When I at last realized that I was not, after all, going to be a great man...' I think he meant 'a great poet.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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His tastes were essentially for what had magnitude and a suggestion of myth: the heroic and the romantic never failed to excite his imagination
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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he remained enthralled by the sublimely ordered Ptolemaic cosmos in which 'we do not see, like Meredith's Lucifer, the army of unalterable law but rather the revelry of insatiable love.' He conceded that it was not 'true'; but in his last, perhaps his most provocative, pages, claimed that all 'models' of the universe reflect as much the psychology of an age as the current state of knowledge.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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The whole man was in all his judgments and activities, and a discriminating zest for life, for 'common life', informs every page he wrote. He saw education as actualizing the potentiality for the leisured activities of thought, art, literature and conversation. 'Grete clerk' as he was, he was never willfully esoteric: quotations and allusions rose unbidden to the surface of his full and fertile mind, but whether drawn from Tristram Shandy or James Thurber they elucidate not decorate. His works are all of a piece: a book in one genre will correct, illumine, or amplify what is latent in another.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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in describing the various writers of his idolatry he more than once lets fall a phrase that could equally apply to himself. 'To read Spenser,' he says, 'is to grow in mental health.' What he values in Addison is his 'open-mindedness.' The moments of despair chronicled in Scott's diary cannot, he claims, counterpoise 'that ease and good temper, that fine masculine cheerfulness' suffused through the best of the Waverly novels. Most of all it was the chiaroscuro of what Chaucer called 'earnest' and 'game' that attracted him. He found it eminently in the poetry of Dunbar, that late-medieval Scottish maker who wrote the greatest religious poetry and the earthiest satire in the language
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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a favourite couplet of Dunbar's sums up his view of the whole duty and delight of Man: Man, please thy Maker and be merry And give not for this world a cherry.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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Here at last was an Attendant Spirit to liberate us from the spells of Burkhardt or Addington Symonds and challenge the easy antithesis of fantastic and fideistic Middle Ages versus logical and free-thinking Renaissance. And it is a prime justification of medieval studies that if properly pursued they soon dispose of such facile distinctions, and overthrow the barriers of narrow specialism and textbook chronology. In this sense medieval just as much as classical studies make men more humane. It would indeed be hard to separate in Lewis' culture the one from the other: just as hard as it is to understand the Middle Ages themselves without knowing classical literature or the Renaissance without knowing the Middle Ages. This continuity of literature and of learning Lewis not only asserted but embodied.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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we would stride over Hinksey and Cumnor - we walked almost as fast as we talked - disputing and quoting, as we looked for the dark dingles and tree-topped hills of Matthew Arnold. This kind of walk must be among the commonest, perhaps among the best, of undergraduate experiences. Lewis, with the gusto of a Chesterton or a Belloc, would suddenly roar out a passage of poetry that he had newly discovered and memorized, particularly if it were in Old English, a language novel and enchanting to us both for its heroic attitudes and crashing rhythms
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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In a letter, once, he drew me a picture, or allegorical diagram, imitated from the well-known frontispiece of Hobbes's Leviathan, which showed a Leviathan of human values. In the head there stood a figure labeled SAINT. In the heart, a figure labeled HERO. Twittering round the huge figure there was an insect-like object dressed as a man of fashion of the seventeenth century and labeled GENTLEMAN; from its mouth there issued a balloon in which was written in tiny letters: 'and where do I come in?'. Mirabel, he went on to say, was no part of the Everlasting Gospel, a phrase of Blake's that he had his own meaning for. Perhaps the hunger for magnitude that made him admire Gilgamesh and the Edda, and made Spenser and Milton his favourites, disabled him from an appreciation, which I could not deny, for a world of elegant cuckoldry and cynic wit, so seemingly heartless, a trifler's scum of humanity that sought to be taken for its cream.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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When I stand to preach, whatever the setting, I don’t focus on the pastors or the congregation. I just preach to an audience of One.
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H.B. Charles Jr. (On Pastoring: A Short Guide to Living, Leading, and Ministering as a Pastor)
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Christian theism, to those who believe it, commends itself as fact, not theory, by the sheer multiplicity of its bearings. Were it a speculation, it would surely face a single field of enquiry: it would assign the cause of the world, or the principle of duty, or the aim of existence, or the means of spiritual regeneration. If an equal light falls from a single source in all these directions at once, that source must seem to have the richness of a reality, rather than the abstract poverty of an idea.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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we refer to the Middle Ages as ages of faith; a time in which men believed a heavenly Jerusalem above the sky much as they believed an earthly Sion beyond the sea; when the whole of their thought was of a piece with their theology...those were days when a thoughtful soul here or there could realize some unity of mental vision. The fact should be admitted, however we regard it - whether as the stultifying tyranny of dogma or as an enviable single-mindedness; an ideal too easily realized, no doubt, in a plentiful dearth of empirical knowledge, and yet establishing a standard after which perplexed modernity may strive.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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As he claimed the right to enjoy the literature of any period for the joy that was in it, so he claimed the liberty to profit from the insights of every generation open to his study. He would have been ashamed to know nothing of what was being said, written or done in his own day; but he felt under no obligation to find it better than the products of previous time, and especially than those which had passed the sieve of old oblivion.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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Muddled minds read him, and found themselves moving with delight in a world of clarity.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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He was never quite at home in what we may call our post-positivist era
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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God's goodness will not mean a spoiling indulgence; [H]is aim need not be our ease so much as our perfection.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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If the requirements of world-structure are so inexorable, what scope is there for a free providence in distributing pleasures and pains? If pains are the natural rubs of a world-structure bearing on sentient creatures, what need have we to view them as instruments of a disciplinary providence?
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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What will has caused, will must be brought to correct.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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God's 'permission' of evil so multiplied is not simply to be accounted for by his respecting our free will. He takes the harms we mutually inflict and overrules them for our good.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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The primary function of mental pain, says Lewis, is to force our misdirectedness on our attention. But just as it belongs to our fallen state to be blind to holiness until we suffer the consequences of sin, and blind to a higher good until natural satisfactions are snatched from us; so equally it belongs to our state that we cannot achieve disinterestedness until it costs us pain.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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Is romantic yearning an appetite for [H]eaven, or is it the ultimate refinement of covetousness?
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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Man, to Lewis, is an immortal subject; pains are his moral remedies, salutary disciplines, willing sacrifices, playing their part in a drama of interchange between God and him.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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When under suffering we see good men go to pieces we do not witness the failure of a moral discipline to take effect; we witness the advance of death where death comes by inches.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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What a pity it is that by such superfluous unrealities he should furnish the public with excuses to evade the overwhelming realism of his moral theology!
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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[Lewis had a] determined impersonality towards all except his very closest friends.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))
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[Lewis had a] determined impersonality towards all except his very close friends.
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Jocelyn Gibb (Light on C. S. Lewis (Harvest Book; Hb 341))