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[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.
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Orhan Pamuk (The Black Book)
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Next to that dragon Micha had wirtten: 'KIS EacH OthER'.
Abel looked at Anna. Anna looked at Abel.
'She is the little queen,' said Abel, 'in our fairy tale, at least.'
'One must obey the queen,' said Anna.
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Antonia Michaelis (The Storyteller)
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If you had a friend you knew you’d never see again, what would you say? If you could do one last thing for someone you love, what would it be? Say it, do it, don’t wait. Nothing lasts forever.
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Brooke Davies
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E.E. Cummings (Selected Poems)
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It's the oldest story in the world. One day you're 17 planning for someday and then quietly, without you ever noticing, someday today. And then someday yesterday. And this is your life.
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Brooke Davies
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It is a pure soul who can hold true the innocence and timelessness of passion in another soul. Each unveiling the greatest pieces of the other, locked together at the heart for eternity
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Christine Zolendz (Saving Grace (Mad World, #2))
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The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but why history matters. How to ignite the first spark of the will o'the wisp, the Jack o'lantern, the ignis fatuus [foolish fire] beloved of poets, which lights up one source of history and then another, zigzagging across the marsh, connecting and linking and writing bright words across the dark face of the present. There's no phrase I can come up that will encapsulate in a winning sound-bite why history matters. We know that history matters, we know that it is thrilling, absorbing, fascinating, delightful and infuriating, that it is life. Yet I can't help wondering if it's a bit like being a Wagnerite; you just have to get used to the fact that some people are never going to listen.
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Stephen Fry (Making History)
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Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the othe
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Maxwell Maltz
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Heart turned to me, his face thoughtful. “Yesterday morning. Yes, that means that Daphne hadn’t been home for two days before that.” He smiled at me. “You were supposed to be the Alpha’s eye candy.”
Adam laughed.
“What?” I asked him. “You don’t think I’d be good eye candy?” I looked down at my overalls and grease-stained hands. I’d torn another nail to the quick.
“Honey is eye candy,” said Ben apologetically. “You’re . . . just you.”
“Mine,” said Adam, edging between Heart and me. “Mine is what she is.
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Patricia Briggs (Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson, #5))
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The others went upstairs, a slow unwilling procession. If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an eerie feeling. But this house was the essence of modernity. There were no dark corners - no possible sliding panels - it was flooded with electric light - everything was new and bright and shining. There was nothing hidden in this house, nothing concealed. It had no atmosphere about it. Somehow, that was the most frightening thing of all. They exchanged good-nights on the upper landing. Each of them went into his or her own room, and each of them automatically, almost without conscious thought, locked the door....
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Agatha Christie (And Then There Were None)
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Power without control is worthless." Acheron's favorite saying. At least it was Ash's pet phrase any time Nick got behind the wheel and laid into the accelerator.
"Damn it, Nick! You've got to learn to go slow and not rush off into traffic at warp ten, especially not when it's heading straight for you!" Acheron's oth favorite rant where he was concerned.
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Inferno (Chronicles of Nick, #4))
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Est Sularus oth Mithas”—“My honor is life.
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Margaret Weis (Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1))
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Usually, very early in the morning. German laborers were going to work. They would stop and look at us without surprise. One day when we had come to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest. Years later, I witnessed a similar spectacle in Aden. Our ship’s passengers amused themselves by throwing coins to the “natives,” who dove to retrieve them. An elegant Parisian lady took great pleasure in this game. When I noticed two children desperately fighting in the water, one trying to strangle the other, I implored the lady: “Please, don’t throw any more coins!” “Why not?” said she. “I like to give charity…
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Elie Wiesel (Night (The Night Trilogy, #1))
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Max, you can change your mind.” His voice was like autumn leaves dropping
lightly onto the ground.
“I don’t know how.”
Then my throat felt tight, and I rubbed my fists against my eyes. I dropped
my face onto my arms, crossed over my knees. This sucked! I wanted to be back
with the oth-
Fang’s hand gently smoothed my hair off my neck. My breath froze in my
chest, and every sense seemed hyperalert. His hand stroked my hair again, so
softly, and then trailed across my neck and shoulder and down my back, making
me shiver.
I looked up. “What the heck are you doing?”
“Helping you change your mind,” he whispered, and then he leaned over,
tilted my chin up, and kissed me.
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James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports (Maximum Ride, #3))
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I wonder if running is just another fix to a fix to a fix to a fix to a fix to a problem I can’t remember.
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Chuck Palahniuk
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[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.
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Dorothy L. Sayers (The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist)
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[N]othing is uglier than supreme authority combined with a cruel nature.
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Ammianus Marcellinus (The Later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378))
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[N]othing is so pleasing to perplexed unhappy people as the denunciation of others,
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H.G. Wells (The Shape of Things to Come)
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The very word ‘disappears’ implies that the universe is, so to speak, finite, and that it is possible to leave it. But no-o-othing” (he deliberately drew the word out) “can ever leave the universe. And nothing can enter it. Not a single speck of dust can appear or disappear. Matter is transformed into energy, and energy into matter,
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Amos Oz (A Tale of Love and Darkness)
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Into that charm and the gloom and the deep silence Oth moved gravely; and a solemness came on his face as he entered the wood; for to go on quiet feet through the wood was the work of his life, and he came to it as men come to their heart's desire.
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Lord Dunsany (The King of Elfland's Daughter)
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You were made to have the dreams you're afraid of having. You were made to do things that you don't think you're qualified for. You were made to be a leader, You were made to contribute. You were made to make changes for good, oth in your local community and the world at large. You were made to be more than you are today and - this is the important part - your version of more might not look like my more, or hers.
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Rachel Hollis (Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals)
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[N]othing is more odious to the auditor, than the artless tongue of a tedious dolt, which dulls the delight of hearing, and slacketh the desire of remembering.
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Thomas Nashe
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But are my footsteps silent?
Are they just holes within the sand?
Or does another hear them, follow,
And find me where I am?
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L.S. Hartfield
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N OTHING is done in the interest of welfare for the common good where there is money to be made.
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Anton Szandor LaVey (Satan Speaks!)
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[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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...{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends.
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John Gardner (The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers)
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It is certainly fortunate for us that the numbers (of quarks and antiquarks) are unequal because, if they had been the same, nearly all the quarks and antiquarks would have annihilated each other in the early universe and left a universe filled with radiation but hardly any matter. There would then have been no galaxies, stars, or planets on which human life could have developed.
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Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time)
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assemble and disperse, everything changes and is transformed, but no-o-othing can ever change from being to not-being. Not even the tiniest hair growing on the tail of some virus. The concept of infinity is indeed open, infinitely open, but at the same time it is also closed and hermetically sealed. Nothing leaves and nothing enters.
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Amos Oz (A Tale of Love and Darkness)
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Will you pour out tea, Miss Brent?' The elder woman replied: 'No, you do it, dear. That tea-pot is so heavy. And I have lost two skeins of my grey knitting-wool. So annoying.' Vera moved to the tea-table. There was a cheerful rattle and clink of china. Normality returned. Tea! Blessed ordinary everyday afternoon tea! Philip Lombard made a cheery remark. Blore responded. Dr. Armstrong told a humorous story. Mr. Justice Wargrave, who ordinarily hated tea, sipped approvingly.
Into this relaxed atmosphere came Rogers. And Rogers was upset. He said nervously and at random: 'Excuse me, sir, but does any one know what's become of the bathroom curtain?'
Lombard's head went up with a jerk. 'The bathroom curtain? What the devil do you mean, Rogers?'
'It's gone, sir, clean vanished. I was going round drawing all the curtains and the one in the lav - bathroom wasn't there any longer.'
Mr. Justice Wargrave asked: 'Was it there this morning?'
'Oh, yes, sir.'
Blore said: 'What kind of a curtain was it?'
'Scarlet oilsilk, sir. It went with the scarlet tiles.'
Lombard said: 'And it's gone?'
'Gone, Sir.'
They stared at each other.
Blore said heavily: 'Well - after all-what of it? It's mad - but so's everything else. Anyway, it doesn't matter. You can't kill anybody with an oilsilk curtain. Forget about it.'
Rogers said: 'Yes, sir, thank you, sir.' He went out, shutting the door.
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Agatha Christie (And Then There Were None)
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What are these,
So withered, and so wild in their attire,
That look not like th'inhabitants o'th' earth
And yet are on't? - Live you, or are you aught
That man may question? You seem to understand me,
By each at once her choppy finger laying
Upon her skinny lips. You should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so.
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William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
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I think you go to some hell for that. One o'the bad ones.
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George R.R. Martin (A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4))
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N othing on this planet can compare with a woman’s love—it is kind and compassionate, patient and nurturing, generous and sweet and unconditional. Pure.
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Steve Harvey (Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man)
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Est solarus Oth Mithas
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Margaret Weis (Dragonlance 1)
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9Since, therefore, nwe have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from othe wrath of God.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33But nseek first othe kingdom of God and his righteousness, pand all these things will be added to you.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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(N)othing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.
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Jonathan Maberry (Dust & Decay (Rot & Ruin, #2))
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One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may ndwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon othe beauty of the LORD and to inquire [3] in his temple.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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[N]othing whole, nothing definitive or lasting can be accomplished in our country as long as a crucial part of ourselves is kept in this condition of subjugation—a condition imposed over the course of centuries by various systems of exploitation.
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Thomas Sankara (Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle)
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Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature:
It is too full o'the milk of human-kindness
To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great,
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly
That wouldst thou holily, wouldst not play false,
And yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou'dst have, great
Glamis,
That which cries, 'Thus thou must do' if thou have it,
And that which rather thou dost fear to do
Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear,
And chastise with the valour of my tongue
All that impedes thee from the golden round
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crowned withal.
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William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
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Winter descended on Erl and gripped the forest, holding the small twigs stiff and still: in the valley it silenced the stream; and in the fields of the oxen the grass was brittle as earthenware, and the breath of the beasts went up like the smoke of encampments. And Orion still went to the woods whenever Oth would take him, and sometimes he went with Threl. When he went with Oth the wood was full of the glamour of the beasts that Oth hunted, and the splendour of the great stags seemed to haunt the gloom of far hollows; but when he went with Threl a mystery haunted the wood, so that one could not say what creature might not appear, nor what haunted and hid by every enormous bole. What beasts there were in the wood even Threl did not know: many kinds fell to his subtlety, but who knew if these were all?
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Lord Dunsany (The King of Elfland's Daughter)
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Because othe daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, ptinkling with their feet, 17 therefore the Lord qwill strike with a scab the heads of othe daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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EPHESIANS 4 I therefore, ma prisoner for the Lord, urge you to nwalk in a manner worthy of othe calling to which you have been called, 2with all phumility and qgentleness, with rpatience, sbearing with one another in love, 3eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in tthe bond of peace.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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EPHESIANS 4 I therefore, m a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to n walk in a manner worthy of o the calling to which you have been called, 2with all p humility and q gentleness, with r patience, s bearing with one another in love, 3eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in t the bond of peace.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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PSALM 1 Blessed is the man [1] who awalks not in bthe counsel of the wicked, nor stands in cthe way of sinners, nor dsits in ethe seat of fscoffers; 2 but his gdelight is in the law [2] of the LORD, and on his hlaw he meditates day and night. 3 He is like ia tree planted by jstreams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its kleaf does not wither. lIn all that he does, he prospers. 4 The wicked are not so, but are like mchaff that the wind drives away. 5 Therefore the wicked nwill not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in othe congregation of the righteous; 6 for the LORD pknows qthe way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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Investigate. Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you. Learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which come from abroad). Take responsibility for what you communicate with oth
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Timothy Snyder (On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century)
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Do not I know if women have a will
They'll do 'gainst all the watches o'the world?
(2. 7. 8-9)
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Ben Jonson
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Well, bugger me," cried Jonas when he saw Richie with his bow, "is it Robin Hood or Adam Bell come to save us? Nay, it's Richie O'the Bow, hero of ballad and song!
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David Pilling (Reiver (Border Reiver, #1))
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thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may n dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon o the beauty of the LORD
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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Don't get me wrong. I'm not sayin' you don't love her. But love doesn't make us saints. You're gonna think of yourself first. We're flawed creatures, men.
REAL love - when you strip out all the baggage - can make us better'n what we are. That's the gift and the curse. But you gotta LET it.
End o'the day, if you love someone, you do what's best for 'em.
Even if it's not what's best for you.
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Christos Gage (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: I Wish, Part 2 (Season 10, #7))
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It's the oldest story in the world. One day you're seventeen and planning for someday. And then quietly, and without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.
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Nathan Scott
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But one thing I do: n forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal for o the prize of the upward p call of God in Christ Jesus. 15Let those of us who are q mature think this way,
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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Does not l wisdom call? Does not m understanding raise her voice? 2 On n the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; 3 beside o the gates in front of p the town, at the entrance of the portals she
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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I therefore, m a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to n walk in a manner worthy of o the calling to which you have been called, 2with all p humility and q gentleness, with r patience, s bearing with one another in love, 3eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in t the bond of peace. 4There is u one body and v one Spirit—just as you were called to the one w hope that belongs to your call— 5 x one Lord, y one faith, z one baptism, 6 a one God and Father of all, b who is over all and through all and in all.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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In m just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at n his place, he will not be there. 11 But o the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in p abundant peace. 12 The wicked q plots against the righteous
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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you of little faith? 31Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For l the Gentiles seek after all these things, and m your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33But n seek first o the kingdom of God and his righteousness,
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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6For God, who said, m “Let light shine out of darkness,” n has shone in our hearts to give o the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Treasure in Jars of Clay 7But we have this treasure in p jars of clay, q to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29yet I tell you, jeven Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, kO you of little faith? 31Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For lthe Gentiles seek after all these things, and myour heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33But nseek first othe kingdom of God and his righteousness, pand all these things will be added to you.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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A teacher in Oklahoma reflected on the post-graduation aftermath of student social divisions. “The in crowd always hangs together, even after graduation. They are the ones who will become debutantes after their freshman year in college. The others tend to drift away. They don’t get invited to the parties, they are laughed at because they aren’t wearing designer clothes, etc.,” she said. But when it comes down to the popular students versus the outcasts, the latter “are more sure of themselves (even with the ridicule), and usually turn out to be more successful and well-adjusted. I would take the outcasts in a heartbeat.” So would I.
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Alexandra Robbins
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Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person h be quick to hear, i slow to speak, j slow to anger; 20for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21Therefore k put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with l meekness the implanted word, m which is able to save your souls. 22But be n doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25But the one who looks into the perfect law, o the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, p he will be blessed in
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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16“Thus says the Lord GOD: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance. 17But if he makes a gift m out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to n the year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance—it shall belong to his sons. 18 o The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, p thrusting them out of their property.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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l The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; [2] l his mercies never come to an end; 23 they are new m every morning; n great is your faithfulness. 24 o “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, k “therefore I will hope in him.” 25 The LORD is good to those who p wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. 26 q It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. 27 r It is good for a man that he bear the yoke s in his youth.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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For as the Father has life in himself, zso he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27And he ahas given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. 28Do not marvel at this, for van hour is coming when ball who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29and come out, cthose who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. Witnesses to Jesus 30 d“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and emy judgment is just, because fI seek not my own will gbut the will of him who sent me. 31 hIf I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true. 32There is ianother who bears witness about me, and jI know that the testimony that he bears about me is true. 33 kYou sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 34Not that lthe testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. 35He was a burning and mshining lamp, and nyou were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. 36But lthe testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For othe works that the Father has given me pto accomplish, the very works that I am doing, qbear
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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Do Not Be Anxious 25 e “Therefore I tell you, f do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 g Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. h Are you not of more value than they? 27And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his i span of life? [7] 28And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29yet I tell you, j even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, k O you of little faith? 31Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For l the Gentiles seek after all these things, and m your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33But n seek first o the kingdom of God and his righteousness, p and all these things will be added to you. 34 q “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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Grace to you and peace from i him j who is and k who was and who is to come, and from l the seven spirits who are before his throne, 5and from Jesus Christ m the faithful witness, n the firstborn of the dead, and o the ruler of kings on earth. To p him who loves us and q has freed us from our sins by his blood 6and made us r a kingdom, r priests to s his God and Father, to him be t glory and u dominion forever and ever. Amen. 7Behold, v he is coming with the clouds, and w every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail [3] on account of him. Even so. Amen. 8 x “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, y “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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Blessed is the man [1] who a walks not in b the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in c the way of sinners, nor d sits in e the seat of f scoffers; 2 but his g delight is in the law [2] of the LORD, and on his h law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like i a tree planted by j streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its k leaf does not wither. l In all that he does, he prospers. 4 The wicked are not so, but are like m chaff that the wind drives away. 5 Therefore the wicked n will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in o the congregation of the righteous; 6 for the LORD p knows q the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
”
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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Body of Christ EPHESIANS 4 I therefore, ma prisoner for the Lord, urge you to nwalk in a manner worthy of othe calling to which you have been called, 2with all phumility and qgentleness, with rpatience, sbearing with one another in love, 3eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in tthe bond of peace. 4There is uone body and vone Spirit—just as you were called to the one whope that belongs to your call— 5 xone Lord, yone faith, zone baptism, 6 aone God and Father of all, bwho is over all and through all and in all. 7But cgrace was given dto each one of us eaccording to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8Therefore it says, f“When he ascended on high ghe led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.” [1] 9( hIn saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into ithe lower regions, the earth? [2] 10He who descended is the one who also jascended kfar above all the heavens, that he might lfill all things.) 11And mhe gave the napostles, the prophets, the oevangelists, the pshepherds [3] and teachers, [4] 12 qto equip the saints for the work of ministry, for rbuilding up sthe body of Christ, 13until we all attain to tthe unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, uto mature manhood, [5] to the measure of the stature of vthe fullness of Christ, 14so that we may no longer be children, wtossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in xdeceitful schemes. 15Rather, yspeaking the truth in love, we are to zgrow up in every way into him who is athe head, into Christ, 16 bfrom whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, cwhen each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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REVELATION 2 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of e him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, f who walks among the seven golden lampstands. 2 g “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but h have tested those i who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. 3I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up j for my name’s sake, and you k have not grown weary. 4But I have this against you, that you have abandoned l the love you had at first. 5Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do m the works you did at first. If not, n I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. 6Yet this you have: you hate the works of o the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 7 p He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. q To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of r the tree of life, which is in s the paradise of God.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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Wherefore he promised with an othe, that he would giue her whatsoeuer she would aske. 8 And shee being before instructed of her mother, sayde, Giue mee here Iohn Baptists head in a platter.
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Anonymous (The Geneva Bible including the Marginal Notes of the Reformers. 1587 version.)
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Est Sularus oth Mithas”—“My honor is life.” The code defined honor and was more
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Margaret Weis (Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1))
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Tim, An Irish Terrier
It's wonderful dogs they're breeding now:
Small as a flea or large as a cow;
But my old lad Tim he'll never be bet
By any dog that he ever met,
Come on 'says he'for I'm not kilt yet!
No matter the size of the dog he'll meet,
Tim trails his coat the length o'the street.
D'ye mind his scar an'his ragged ear,
The like of a Dublin Fusilier?
He's a massacree dog that knows no fear.
But he'd stick to me till his lastest breath;
An'he'd go with me to the gates of death.
He'd wait a thousand years,maybe,
Scratching the door an'whining for me
If myself were inside in Purgatory.
So I laugh when I hear them make it plain
That dogs and men never meet againj.
For all their talk who'd listen to them
With the soul in the shining eyes of him?
Would God be wasting a dog like Tim?
- Winifred M. Letts.
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Robert Frothingham (Songs of Men, an Anthology Selected and Arranged By Robert Frothingham)
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We say—say ‘Est Sularis Oth Mithas’ in the old tongue. ‘My Honor is My Life.
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Richard A. Knaak (The Legend of Huma (Dragonlance: Heroes #1))
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I am not suggesting that the new politics is just about sweetness and light and being nice to people. It is as important as ever to have a proper analysis of power and be prepared to confront it. But perhaps the image is not the two boxers facing up to each othe with fists and bloody noses, but he aikido skill of turning the force against itself, or of removing just the right brick from the wall so that it crumbles. This requires no less strength, courage or determination.
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Gareth Hughes (A Gentle Radical: The Life of Jeanette Fitzsimons)
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52The Jews then hdisputed among themselves, saying, i“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of jthe Son of Man and drink his blood, you khave no life in you. 54Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood lhas eternal life, and mI will raise him up on the last day. 55For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood nabides in me, and I in him. 57As othe living Father psent me, and qI live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. 58 rThis is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread [3] the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” 59Jesus [4] said these things in the synagogue, as he taught sat Capernaum.
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ESV Bibles (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (with Cross-References): Old and New Testaments)
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The Emperor [Wudi,156 BC – 87 BC] orders a white metallic currency of a mixture of silver and tin, considering that in heaven there is othing superior to the dragon, and on earth nothing superior to the horse, and among men nothing superior to the tortoise ; there there shall be three sorts of metallic coins"
Of the first : "It shall have a value of 8 Tales, make it round ; its device shall be a dragon; its name shall be 'T'suan (Regulator), and its value, 3000 coins.
Of the second : "make it different, and smaller in comparison to the first in thickness, and of a square form, its device shall be a horse ; its value : 500 coins."
Of the third : "Make it still smaller in size, and in weight, four Taels." "Let is be of oblong form, its device shall be a tortoise, and its value : 300 coins:
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John S. Dye
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The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet o the world did not know him. 11[†]He came to p his own, [2] and q his own people [3] r did not receive him. 12[†]But to all who did receive him, s who believed in his name, t he gave the right u to become v children of God, 13who w were born, x not of blood y nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
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Anonymous (ESV Study Bible)
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one of those world builders who do othing but destroy,
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John Le Carré (Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1))
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The r e is an old joke, which may not be a gr e a t joke but is a deep me t aphor for ma thema t i c s : A man walking a t night finds anothe r on his hands and knees, searching for something unde r a s t r e e t l ight . "Wha t a r e you looking for?", the first man asks; "I lost a qua r t e r , " the othe r replies. The first man gets down on his hands and knees to help, and after a long while asks "Ar e you sur e you lost i t here?". "No," replies the second man, " I lost i t down the street. But thi s is where the light is.
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Anonymous
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indistinguishable from Delta. Gumm said the pilot-training plan is another way in which Endeavor is rebounding as a top-flight passenger carrier. The airline was renamed Endeavor after the former Pinnacle Airlines emerged from bankruptcy in 2013. Atlanta-based Delta, which acquired Northwest Airlines in 2008, employs nearly 80,000 people around the globe and operates a fleet of 700 aircraft. Neal St. Anthony
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Anonymous
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O: The Homelander series is one of the best group of books for middle aged teens looking for an action/adventure book. The story is realistic, has lots of action, and connects with the readers.
RE: Story is realistic. The story in the book is realistic and seems like it could happen in real life. It takes place in present time in cities that are around today.
RE: Lots of action. Throughout the book there is a good deal of action without being to overwhelming.
RE: Connects with the readers. He writes well in first person POV. He writes well in a teenage type of personality.
O:The Homelander series is one of the best groups of books for middle aged teens.
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Jack Shunkwiler
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[B]oth my husband and I are the eldest in largish families and both of us had childhoods punctuated by pregnancies, the weeklong disappearance of our mothers, and the arrival of yet another lozenge of a receiving blanket with a red face and a querulous cry. But being supplanted by babies was quite different from being in thrall to them.
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Anna Quindlen
St. Wishnevsky (Freestate (The Resurrection of America Book 2))
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Once there was a deer called stag. A white breasted,
a many pointed. He refused to still when he halted,
the hooves in his mind were always lifted. Everything
comes close the branches slide. In a clearing made of
cleavings, stag sees another stag. They watch each oth-
er, they share no story. I will not cross you and you must
move on. There is nothing else It reminds me of some
tale, stay with me to remember, it reminds me of where
I was going without you.
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Richard Siken (War of the Foxes)
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Will o’the wisps are lights, often seen on marshland and often on the night of the summer solstice.
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Elly Griffiths (The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1))
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Othe mera ghar
Othe hi hai rab
Othe meri jaan
Othe vasse sab
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Kiwen main kawaan
Te Kawaan kinnu
Ohio hai junoon
Othe meri rooh
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Jithe jithe, othe jithe
Jithe jithe, othe jithe
Jithe vee hai tu, ek tu
Jithe jaaven tu, ek tu
Jithe vee hain tu, ek tu
Othe jithe tu, ek tu
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Na labban manzil
Na hi koi raah
Sunda te hovega
Haiga je khuda
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Dilon je Mango
Kehnde milju
Kujh hor nai
chahida mainnu
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Khushi ohde Hathin
Socheya ni kyu
Labb leya bhaven
Khoke khud nu
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Ohio hai ikko
Othe mera sukoon
Ohio hai junoon
Othe meri rooh
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Jithe jithe, othe jithe
Jithe jithe, othe jithe
Jithe vee hai tu, ek tu
Jithe jaaven tu, ek tu
Jithe vee hain tu, ek tu
Othe jithe tu, ek tu
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma (Once Upon A Hum - Strings)
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MARATHI VERSION
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Tithe maza ghar
Tithe aahe dev
Tithe maza jeeve
Tithe aahe sarv
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Konala me saangu
Kaase me saangu
Tithe aahe itcha
Tithe aahe rooh
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Jithe jithe, othe jithe
Jithe jithe, othe jithe
Jithe vee hai tu, ek tu
Jithe jaaven tu, ek tu
Jithe vee hain tu, ek tu
Othe jithe tu, ek tu
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma (Once Upon A Hum - Strings)
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... the following example for this type of neurotic love relation to be found frequently today fleals with men who in their emotional development have remained stuck in an infantile attachment to mother. These are men who have never been weaned as it were from mother. These men still feel like children; they want mother's protection, love, warmth, care, and admiration; they want mother's unconditional love, a love which is given for no other reason than that they need it, that they are mother's child, that they are helpless. Such men frequently are quite affectionate and charming if they try to induce a woman to love them, and even after they have succeeded in this. But their relationship to the woman (as, in fact, to all othe people) remains superficial and irresponsible. Their aim is to be loved, not to love. There is usually a good deal of vanity in this type of man, more or less hidden grandiose ideas. If they have found the right woman, they feel secure, on top of the world, and can display a great deal of affection and charm, and this is the reason why these men are often so deceptive. But when, after a while, the woman does not continue to live up to their phantastic expectations, conflicts and resentment start to develop. If the woman is not always admiring them, if she makes claims for a life of her own, if She wants to be loved and protected herself, and in extreme cases, if she is not willing to condone his love affairs with other women (or even have an admiring interest in them), the man feels deeply hurt and disappointed, and usually rationalizes this feeling with the idea that the woman 'does not love him, is selfish, or is domineering'. Anything short of the attitude of a loving mother toward a charming child is taken as proof of a lack of love. These men usually confuse their affectionate behavior, their wish to please, with genuine love and thus arrive at the conclusion that they are being treated quite unfairly; they imagine themselves to be the great lovers and complain bitterly about the ingratitude of their love partner.
In rare cases such a mother-centered person can function without any severe disturbances. If his mother, in fact, 'loved' him in an overprotective manner (perhaps being domineering, but without being destructive), if he finds a wife of the same motherly type, if his special gifts and talents permit him to use his charm and be admired (as is the case sometimes with successful politicians), he is 'well adjusted' in a social sense, without ever reaching a higher level of maturity. But under less favorable conditions -and these are naturally more frequent- his love life, if not his social life, will be a serious disappointment; conflicts, and frequently intense anxiety and depression arise when this type of personality is left alone.
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Erich Fromm (The Art of Loving)
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[N]othing short of super-extraordinary measures must be taken to ensure that we make it through this interregnum and ensure our survival and that of the natural world we inhabit. [From Preface]
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H.M. Forester (Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt: A crash course in Psi-fi, Romantic idealism, depth psychology, the daemonic, and Resistance)
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contend earnestly for Jthe faith which was once for all Khanded down to Lthe csaints. 4For certain persons have Mcrept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand d,Nmarked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn Othe grace of our God into Plicentiousness and Qdeny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. (NASB, MacArthur Study Bible, 2nd Edition: Unleashing God's Truth One Verse at a Time)
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Agambenquotes from Hegel’s Aesthetics: “what is at issue […] is the right of the wide awake consciousness, the justification of what the man has self-consciously willed and knowingly done, as contrasted with what he was fated by the gods to do and actually did unconsciously,” and declares that “[n]othing is further from Auschwitz than this model” (2002: 96 & 97). Not only do innocence and guilt becomes unbridgeable, but their relation is based on a de facto inversion: the camp deportee “feels innocent precisely for that which the tragic hero feels guilty, and guilty exactly where the tragic hero feels innocent” (2002: 97). Agamben’s context is that of Primo Levi’s “grey zone,” and the rationale of Befehlnotstand, the principle of blind obedience, or the “‘state of compulsion to follow an order’” (2002: 97).
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Magdalena Zolkos (Reconciling Community and Subjective Life: Trauma Testimony as Political Theorizing in the Work of Jean Améry and Imre Kertész)
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Lee told Young and Woodruff that when he heard about the massacre, “he took some men & went & buried their bodies,” which “was a horrid awful Job.” He then continued his victim blaming. “Many of the men & women was rotten with the pox [venereal disease] before they were hurt by the Indians,” he claimed, reflecting what freighter Billy Mathews said William Dame told him the day after the massacre. He “did not think their was a drop of innocent Blood in their Camp.” He had taken in two of the surviving children and “could not get but one to kneel down in prayer time & the othe[r] would laugh at her for doing it.” And, he added, the children “sw[o]re like pirats.
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Richard E. Turley (Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath)
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human tendency. However, it can also have a negative impact in certain environments. One example is senior managers who are clearly incompetent yet still manage to get promoted. If you haven’t already noticed, incompetent people are typically oblivious to their incompetence. They literally walk around with their head in the clouds believing they are the cleverest people in the world. On the oth
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Daniel Walter (The Power of Discipline: How to Use Self Control and Mental Toughness to Achieve Your Goals)
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[N]othing can be more disastrous than the view that the cinema can and should replace popular written fiction. The elements which it excludes are precisely those which give the untrained mind its only access to the imaginative world. There is death in the camera.
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C.S. Lewis (On Stories)
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It is interesting that a
pair of isolated pulses yields
a stable system: the emis-
sion of two diverging digital
particles (Fig. 19). Appar-
ently only certain configura-
tions are possible, while oth-
ers are excluded or provide no stable results. This bears a certain similarity
to some situations in quantum mechanics.
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Konrad Zuse (Rechnender Raum)
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Est Sularis Oth Mithas’ in the old tongue. ‘My Honor is My Life.’
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Richard A. Knaak (The Legend of Huma (Dragonlance: Heroes #1))
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Zen would say that in adopting, too completely, the scientific view of reality we have closed the door on a more holistic view of life and are limiting ourselves to a rather mundane view of something altogether extraordinary.
Zen maintains that our dualistic view of life means that whatever we perceive goes through our mental filtering systems before being cognitively understood. We use mental boxes for all aspects of our daily lives so we can make sense of our world and interact with oth- ers. With the development of language, though, this cognitive grasp of reality means that everything we perceive is subject to these men- tal processes, and so from early childhood we lose the ability to directly perceive the world. This is the point where dualism starts.
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Andrew Juniper (Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence - Understanding the Zen Philosophy of Beauty in Simplicity)
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[B]oth which officers, with the title of commanders, were waiting near the city, having been prevented from entering in triumph, by the malice of a cabal, whose custom it was to ask a price for every thing, whether honorable or infamous.
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Sallust (The Jugurthine War / The Conspiracy of Catiline (Penguin Classics))
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lov3 mOthEr coz shE is onE givE time 2 mother coz shE is onE don,t waste timE wid girlz becoZ they r many :) mom <3
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Mother
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lov3 mOthEr coz shE is onE givE time 2 mother coz shE is onE don,t waste timE wid girlz becoZ they r many :) mom <3
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Muhammad Jawad
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Remembe r tha t the r e is only one impor t ant t ime and tha t is now. The pr e s ent moment is the only t ime ove r whi ch we have dominion. The mos t impor t ant pe r son is a lways the pe r son you a r e wi th, who is r ight be for e you, for who knows if you will have dealings wi th any othe r pe r son in the futur e ? The mos t impor t ant pur sui t is making the pe r son s t anding a t your side happy, for tha t a lone is the pur sui t of life.
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Anonymous
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[N]othing that is isolated can live, since the two most important characteristics of life are circulation and change.
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Alan W. Watts (The meaning of happiness: The quest for freedom of the spirit in modern psychology & the wisdom of the east)