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I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.
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Lady Gaga
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Your hatred is my foreplay.” - Julian King
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Z. Stefani
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Fridays are absolutely without a doubt the best day of the week, five grueling days of the same routine seem to melt at three o'clock on Friday afternoon. There's a sense of magic there, everything smells better, tastes better, and the colors are brighter. As opposed to Sunday evenings when everything begins to get dim all over again.
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Stefanie Ellis (Ashes (The Gray Area, #1))
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No sé lo que quiero, pero sé lo que no quiero. No quiero no desear más.
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Darlis Stefany (H de Harry (BG.5 #1))
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No cambiaría nada de mi vida si eso significa que tú estés en ella.
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Darlis Stefany (H de Harry (BG.5 #1))
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- ... nada nunca se vio tan perfecto y eso aterra.
- Eso es porque cuando algo nos hace tan feliz nos da miedo que no sea real - digo, sin necesidad de pensarlo.
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Darlis Stefany (H de Harry (BG.5 #1))
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Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.
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Gwen Stefani
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After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.
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Gwen Stefani
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The only limits we have are the ones we give ourselves.
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S.M. Oberhansley
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Yes, I suppose God is the only one we can really trust. He's all-good and all-powerful. Some people want to do right, and they try to, but none of us are all-powerful. No matter what we want, we can't always make it happen.
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Stefani Carmichael (Wildflower Ranch)
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Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
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Rick DeStefanis
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No necesitas de alguien para ser feliz, el tener a un compañero de vida te ayuda a ser feliz, pero no es eso lo que determina si serás feliz en esta vida.
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Darlis Stefany (H de Harry (BG.5 #1))
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-¿nos conocemos, ethan?
-nos conocemos, habladora
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Darlis Stefany (Los Miedos de Ethan (BG.5 Libro #3))
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The problem is that if we trust in man we are always let down. No, we shouldn't trust in man-- not ultimately. If we don't trust in man or God, we are in an awful lonely mess, too. You see, if we don't trust anyone, we live in fear, but if we trust in God, then we don't have to fear man anymore.
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Stefani Carmichael (Wildflower Ranch)
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Remember: don't let uncertainty about your future paralyze your present.
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Stefanie Weisman (The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College)
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I want you - every inch of you. I want you naked and on your knees before me, I want to stick my tongue in every orifice on your body, and I want to fuck youuntilyou´re begging me to stop
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Z. Stefani (Insufferable Proximity (Insufferable Proximity, #1))
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He’s a cocky, egotistical, competitive, selfish, self-righteous egomaniac, and there’s nothing sexy about that.” ~ Heaven
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Z. Stefani (Insufferable Proximity (Insufferable Proximity, #1))
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No one had ever wanted me. And for some reason I didn't even want me anymore. I wished I could have stepped out of my body and given it back, like you do with a shirt that doesn't fit properly.
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Stefanie Sybens (Letters from the What-Went-Before)
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Anyone who tells you that he or she knows the "correct" way to study either is lying or has a superiority complex
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Stefanie Weisman (The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College)
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no dejes que la luz de otro opaque la tuya, brillas como el sol...más que las estrellas
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Darlis Stefany (El deseo prohibido de Doug)
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... no puedo vivir asustada toda mi vida, en algún punto si no puedo vencer mis miedos entonces lidiaré con ellos.
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Darlis Stefany (H de Harry (BG.5 #1))
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Nadie me advirtió que la dulce niña con la que bromeaba de pequeño, sería la persona a la que sin duda alguna un día llamaría el amor de mi vida.
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Darlis Stefany (+18 (Saga Inspírame #1))
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Yes, there are women who report feeling madly in love with their babies the second they lay eyes on them. These women are either very lucky or lying or needy, and I don't trust them.
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Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
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- Quiero decirte muchas cosas y sé que tú quieres decirme muchas a mí.
- Y ambos sabemos que tenemos infinito tiempo para decirnos tantas cosas como deseamos decirnos, pero empezaré cada mañana con un te amo.
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Darlis Stefany (H de Harry (BG.5 #1))
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- Es difícil no tener miedo -digo en un susurro.
- Lo sé, pero no es imposible vivir con él. ¿Cuál es el sentido de vivir sin miedo?¿Dónde está el sentido de vivir una vida ordinaria y común? El miedo es lo que nos hace valientes y capaces de luchar.
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Darlis Stefany (H de Harry (BG.5 #1))
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Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.
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Stefanie Brook Trout (Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland)
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Pero esta es la noticia: la vida es una perra injusta que no cree en la justicia
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Darlis Stefany (Censurado)
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So the little princess thinks she can beat the big bad King for the position", he almost chuckled
"I´ll rip through you like a bull shark as I take my prize".
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Z. Stefani (Insufferable Proximity (Insufferable Proximity, #1))
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- Eres la mujer de mi vida, por si no te lo había dicho.
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Darlis Stefany (+18 (Saga Inspírame #1))
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Tu rechazo no corta mis alas, me hace volar lejos para ser feliz
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Darlis Stefany (Los miedos de Ethan (BG.5 #3))
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Recruit your pet as a study partner. Cats are usually more than happy to do this - in fact, you may have trouble keeping them off keyboards and books - and dogs will often serve as well. Few things are more relaxing than having a warm, furry creature next to you as you study.
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Stefanie Weisman (The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College)
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Of course I want to bed her. A man would have to be dead and buried not to. No, I want to talk to her. I like talking to her. Dammit, the bedding part is natural. Wanting to spend time with her outside the bedchamber is not.
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Stefanie Sloane (The Devil in Disguise (Regency Rogues, #1))
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Being a successful student is about more than reading, writing, and 'rithmetic. It's about being a skilled negotiator, a keen observer, and a master planner.
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Stefanie Weisman (The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College)
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I'm proud of myself for doing my best. That's all anyone can ask of me.
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Stefanie Weisman (The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College)
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There will never be a photograph of the Grand Canyon that can adequately describe its depth, breadth, and true beauty.
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Stefanie Payne (A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip)
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unrequited love is the most selfless love.
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Stefanie Sta. Maria
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I started crying because this would all disappear including me and no one seemed to realise it. Did no one feel what I was feeling.
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Stefanie Sybens (Letters from the What-Went-Before)
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Ironic, isn't it? The moment you decide to kill yourself, you have never felt more alive.
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Stefanie Sybens (Letters from the What-Went-Before)
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Do I think Photoshop is being used excessively? Yes. I saw Madonna's Louis Vuitton ad and honestly, at first glance, I thought it was Gwen Stefani's baby.
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Tina Fey (Bossypants)
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If only you could command your brain to actually do that. It would be cool to have some kind of remote control to switch off your thoughts. Thoughts off, Siri. Or, more positive thoughts, Siri. Forget about this thought, Siri. if only.
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Stefanie Sybens (Letters from the What-Went-Before)
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Dices que a las personas asombrosas le pasan cosas asombrosas, pues déjame decirte que tú eres una de esas personas, estás tan lleno de virtudes y alegría que en algún momento la persona idónea entrará a poner tu vida de cabeza y amarás cada parte de eso.
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Darlis Stefany (El deseo prohibido de Doug (BG.5 #2))
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As you work to become a better student, remember that learning is far more important than the numbers on your transcript. I know it can be hard sometimes to remember what you're in school for. In some places, students go crazy over a tenth of a point - but this is an unhealthy and unsustainable way to manage your education. The real reason you're in school is to grow as a person and fulfill your potential.
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Stefanie Weisman (The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College)
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Unfortunately, many people suffer from BPS - Blank Page Syndrome. Let's face it: starting to write is scary. Seeing the cursor blinking at you on that bright white screen, realizing that you now have to come up with three or ten or twenty pages of text all on your own - it's enough to give anyone a major case of writer's block!
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Stefanie Weisman (The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College)
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No siempre podemos ver solo lo malo. Recuerda que lo que no te mata te hace más fuerte, lo dicen infinitas canciones y puedo dar fe de ello. No eres la primera mujer en sufrir y no serás la última, pero tienes que decidirte a seguir adelante, demostrar que esto no te va a doblegar. Eres fuerte.
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Darlis Stefany (El deseo prohibido de Doug (BG.5 #2))
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Never wish a veteran "Happy" Memorial Day.
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Rick DeStefanis
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It looks a bit like the inside of a cave that has been turned inside out and warmed by the sun.
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Stefanie Payne (A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip)
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A lake so vibrant in color that it looks like a fine art painting.
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Stefanie Payne (A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip)
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It is safe to say that the Teton Range is as breathtaking as any mountain landscape one could ever see.
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Stefanie Payne (A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip)
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Dash knew it was selfish of him. But he wanted badly to kiss Miss Elena Barnes at that very moment. Not because he needed her gone. But because he wanted her to stay.
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Stefanie Sloane (The Saint Who Stole My Heart (Regency Rogues, #4))
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I told you this one’s not right in the head. I just show her my killer weapons and all she wants to do is jump my bones.
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Stefanie J. Pristavu
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Born to blossom, bloom to perish
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Gwen Stefani
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Two days in the capitol city and Elena had been reduced to wandering the halls at night, thinking on a man, of all things. A man most assuredly her intellectual inferior. And yet, a man whose heart mysteriously spoke to hers.
This was madness.
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Stefanie Sloane (The Saint Who Stole My Heart (Regency Rogues, #4))
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High school and college students like to torture their bodies. They pull countless all-nighters, continually skip breakfast, eat nothing but ramen noodles for dinner, find creative new ways to guzzle alcohol, transform into couch potatoes, and gain 15 pounds at the freshman dinner buffet. At least, that's the stereotype.
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Stefanie Weisman (The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College)
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Don't forget that your happiness is the most important thing, and that you should never equate your GPA or school with your sense of self-worth. . . . If you're feeling overwhelmed, take a step back and remind yourself that you are not your grades.
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Stefanie Weisman (The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College)
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those companies, I knew they existed, and with a little time, capital, and effort, they would have their moment. I’d soon come to see that there were other people with checkbooks who believed that, too. Marlon Nichols, Troy Carter, and Suzy Ryoo at Cross Culture Ventures; John Henry at Harlem Capital Partners; Kesha Cash and Stefanie Thomas at Impact America; Aaron Holiday at 645 Ventures; Monique Woodard at 500 Startups; Charles Hudson at Precursor; Austin Clements at Ten One Ten; and Freada
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Arlan Hamilton (It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage)
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Forget physics, forget organic chem, forget reading James Joyce's Ulysses - organizing your time is one of the biggest challenges you'll face in your academic career.
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Stefanie Weisman (The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College)
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A lot of high-profile companies are recognizing the benefits of power napping. . . . It's like kindergarten all over again.
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Stefanie Weisman
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Mother Nature is a master sculptor and in no place is that more evident than at Arches National Park.
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Stefanie Payne (A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip)
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It is a spectacular illusion – a deeply three-dimensional scene flattened onto an earthly canvas.
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Stefanie Payne (A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip)
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Dracula!” She said, turning to Daniel.
He shook his head. “No, my name is Daniel.
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Stefanie J. Pristavu
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Die meisten Probleme, die wir haben, resultieren also letztlich aus unserem Selbstschutz
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Stefanie Stahl (Das Kind in dir muss Heimat finden: Der Schlüssel zur Lösung (fast) aller Probleme)
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But maybe sometimes you have to let go of people, and of all the things they do, and just hope that they'll find their way back to you if they're supposed to.
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Stefanie Gaither (Falls the Shadow (Falls the Shadow #1))
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I prefer to get fat on honey.
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Stefanie Brook Trout (Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland)
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Umrym was her home by birth, dragons her race by chance, but it was through the race of men that she was meant to fulfill her purpose.
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Stefanie Lozinski (Magnify (Storm & Spire #1))
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...But it is the stooping back of age that brings us to wisdom."
"I do not claim wisdom. Only truth.
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Stefanie Lozinski (Magnify (Storm & Spire #1))
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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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Stefanie Briar (Burn)
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You can never be a sexy beast like Melissa and Stefani
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Melanie Hornack
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Memorization has gotten a bad rap recently. Lots of students, and even some educators, say that being able to reason is more important than knowing facts; and besides, why bother committing things to memory when you've got Google? My response to this - after I've finished inwardly groaning - is that of course reasoning is important, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't know facts as well. It's not like you have to choose between one or the other. Besides, facts give you a foundation on which to reason about things.
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Stefanie Weisman (The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College)
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Stepping out onto any lookout, you are invited to connect with an amazing example of some of the most unusual terrain on this planet, making you feel as though you are stepping foot on the edge of another world.
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Stefanie Payne (A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip)
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If you have ever wanted to visit somewhere completely wild – away from services, roads, people, and all signs of humanity – head to Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, one of Earth's last true wilderness places.
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Stefanie Payne (A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip)
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But maybe just because people don't turn out to be what you expect them to be, or follow the path you want them to... I don't know. Maybe that doesn't mean they've gotten lost. And maybe just because they don't love you the way you want them to, it doesn't mean they aren't doing the best they can. So it could still be okay in the end.
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Stefanie Gaither (Falls the Shadow (Falls the Shadow #1))
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The bizarre quality of the moment was not lost on Marcus. Here he stood, clothing torn and mauled by what was clearly the result of a misguided romantic encounter between a canine and large bear. The female standing in front of him was in absolute and, not to put too fine a point on it, scandalous disarray. And a devilish sprite was performing polite introductions in the middle of the wood.
It was of Shakespearean proportions. A farce, to be sure.
He should be appalled. Any man of his standing would be.
But he was delighted.
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Stefanie Sloane (The Angel in My Arms (Regency Rogues, #2))
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Ladies, set your standards high. Never lower them.. The day you do, you will get less then what you deserve.
Every woman, deserves to be treated like a queen with respect. It's better to be single and fabulous on your own then to be in a relationship that isn't what you always dreamed of.
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erica maples and Stefany Terherst
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So, in spite of all apparent contradictions, this strange love of Hitler for Stefanie falls into the pattern of his character. Love was a field where the unforeseeable might happen, and which might become dangerous. How many men who had set out with great intentions had been forced off their path by irregular and complicated love affairs. It was imperative to be on one's guard!
Instinctively, the young Hitler found the only correct attitude in his love for Stefanie: he possessed a being whom he loved, and at the same time, he did not possess her. He arranged his whole life as though he possessed this beloved creature entirely. But as he himself avoided any personal meeting, this girl, although he could see that she walked the earth, remained nevertheless a creature of his dream world, towards whom he could project his desires, plans and ideas. And thus he kept himself from deviating from his own path; indeed, this strange relationship, through the power of love, increased his own will. He imagines Stefanie as his wife, builds the house in which they live together, surrounds it with a magnificent garden and arranges his home with Stefanie, just as, in fact, he did later on the Ober-Salzburg, though without her. This mixing of dream and reality is characteristic of the young Hitler. And whenever there is a danger that the beloved would entirely escape into the realm of fantasy, he hurries to the Schmiedtoreck and makes sure that she really walks the earth. Hitler was confirmed in the choice of his path, not by what Stefanie actually was, but by what his imagination made of her. Thus, Stefanie was two things for him, one part reality and one part wish and imagination. Be that as it may, Stefanie was the most beautiful, the most fertile and purest dream of his life.
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August Kubizek (The Young Hitler I Knew)
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When light touches my soul, I open my eyes and I see.
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Stefanie DeWysockie (The Lost Soul (The Tales of Balmoral, #1))
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We never fell ill, not once during one year in the U.S. national parks--perhaps proof of the therapeutic properties of our natural world.
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Stefanie Payne (A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip)
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Big Bend National Park is intensely wild and extraordinarily beautiful – tucked away at the end of a couple of roads in southwest Texas.
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Stefanie Payne (A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip)
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Most don't enter through a gated entrance as is done at so many other national parks, but through invisible passageways by sea.
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Stefanie Payne (A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip)
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Capitol Reed is filled with geology that takes shape, color, and dimension to a level beyond comprehension.
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Stefanie Payne (A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip)
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park is best described as living artwork.
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Stefanie Payne (A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip)
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Glacier National Park in Montana is steadfastly considered to be one of the most beautiful places in the country.
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Stefanie Payne (A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip)
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Across the lansdcape, steam vents hiss gaseous breath from deep inside the planet, creating an environment that feels like it hangs in the balance between our world and another.
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Stefanie Payne (A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip)
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Rachel did a double-take. Hunting without a permit? These people had to be joking. Were they being condemned for poaching?
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Stefanie J. Pristavu - Hunters
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There was only one place I could go to for help. I needed to go to the bookstore
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Stefani Chaney (Midnight (The Opposition, #1))
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There are no elevators to success. You havehave to take the stairs...
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Stefany Rattles
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Disziplin ist eine der wichtigsten Voraussetzungen für ein erfolgreiches Leben und wird in unseren Zeiten der schier unendlichen Wahlmöglichkeiten und des Überflusses extrem strapaziert
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Stefanie Stahl (Das Kind in dir muss Heimat finden: Der Schlüssel zur Lösung (fast) aller Probleme)
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The real model for health, however, is more complicated. The real model goes like this: eating low-quality foods leads to overeating and metabolic brokenness, which makes you overweight and sick.
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Stefani Ruper (Sexy by Nature: The Whole Foods Solution to Radiant Health, Life-Long Sex Appeal, and Soaring Confidence)
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Food comas - known as postprandial somnolence by people who liked to get bean up during recess - are fine when you're relaxing with friends or family, but they're a major setback when you have exams and papers to write.
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Stefanie Weisman (The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College)
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9:00 Give five-minute warning that we are leaving for the zoo. 9:05 “Please put your shoes on.” 9:06 “Please put your shoes on.” 9:07 “Please put your shoes on.” 9:08 “Put your shoes on.” 9:09 “Put. Your. Shoes. On.” 9:40 Leave for the zoo.
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Stefanie Wilder-Taylor (Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic: And Other Opinions I Can't Back Up With Facts)
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She alone was the reflection of his love, and the only proof he had that his heart was no longer dead. When he looked into her eyes, he saw his own happiness. He knew for the first time in his life that he was alive, and it was because of her.
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Z. Stefani (Insufferable Proximity 2 (Insufferable Proximity, #2))
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There was something about seeing my daughter riding her little Radio Flyer tricycle for the first time that made me want to stuff her back in my womb and refuse to let her ever leave the safety of my body again—but not before filling an entire digital memory card with pictures.
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Stefanie Wilder-Taylor (Naptime Is the New Happy Hour: And Other Ways Toddlers Turn Your Life Upside Down)
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Ah, group projects. Some people love 'em, some people hate 'em - okay, most people hate 'em. Your grade now depends on other people whom you may never have met before, and you've somehow got to do the impossible: find some time when a bunch of super-busy high school or college students can actually meet in person.
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Stefanie Weisman (The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College)
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Unlike viral infections, which often left behind a large core of immune survivors to care for the ill and harvest the food the next time an epidemic struck, plague spared no one. Despite the findings about CCR5-D32, the best available current evidence is that Y. pestis does not produce permanent immunity in victims. During the Black Death, this biological quirk may have produced an enormous secondary mortality. As both Boccaccio and Stefani suggest, many people seem to have died not because they had particularly virulent cases of plague, but because the individuals who normally cared for them were either dead or ill themselves.
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John Kelly (The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time)
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That’s how Hunter law works. Max was my maker, so his stuff is my stuff.” Daniel smirked. “I’m your maker, so my stuff is your stuff. It’s my obligation to sustain you. Kinda like a parent.”
“Eww! Don’t say that!”
“The phrase ‘Who’s your daddy?’ suddenly gets a new meaning, no?”
“Stop it! Do you want to put me off you for good?” Okay, she shouldn’t have said that. Please, please, please tell me you didn’t hear that.
“Why? Are you on me?
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Stefanie J. Pristavu
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Cuando creces y no recibes el cariño que esperas, aprendes a dártelo tu mismo. Cuando crees que alguien va amarte y no lo hace. Tú te amas a ti mismo con más fuerzas. Ignoras la búsqueda de defectos y te concentras en tus virtudes.
Ya tengo a otras personas diciéndome lo que está mal en mi vida, mis defectos. Parece justo que me recuerde a mi mismo las razones por las que algunos seguramente me consideran especial. Es mi manera de afrontar la vida.
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Darlys Stefany
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The modern world’s obsession with restriction has led to a wide variety of practices that are detrimental to health. These practices may masquerade as healthy, but they are not. Excess exercise is one of them. Fasting is another. Examples that might be harder to believe but are equally harmful include low-calorie diets, low-fat diets, and vegetarianism. This fact is made all the more unfortunate because these practices are especially harmful for women.
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Stefani Ruper (Sexy by Nature: The Whole Foods Solution to Radiant Health, Life-Long Sex Appeal, and Soaring Confidence)
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I need friends who understand my limitations and have lowered their expectations. They get that although I said I’d be willing to go to an art opening on Saturday night, by the time the weekend rolls around I can only muster up enough energy to watch The Voice and eat a bowl of cereal. I need friends who understand that my version of dressing up is putting on special-occasion flip-flops. Yeah, bitch, they’re sparkly and fabulous, yet they can be worn to wash the car!
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Stefanie Wilder-Taylor (Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic: And Other Opinions I Can't Back Up With Facts)
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The great spire at the eastern side was the only building that stood above ground, though the rear of it pressed against a mountainside. The rest of the block-like structures always reminded Wes of the lids of great stone caskets, buried halfway in the rocky valley floor. The bulk of the city was underground, the tops of buildings poking through the stone only for the purpose of ventilation and surface entrances. Dwarves did not much like to spend time overground. Neither did the dragons—not in these days.
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Stefanie Lozinski (Magnify (Storm & Spire #1))
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In my freshman and sophomore years of college, I read dozens of books by the great thinkers of Western civilization. From Plato to Nietzsche, Homer to Shakespeare - you name it, I read it. At times it drove me crazy - picture reading hundreds of pages that sound like this every week: "All rational knowledge is either material and concerned with some object, or formal and concerned only with the form of understanding and of reason themselves and with the universal rules of thought in general without regard to differences of its objects." Come again, Kant?
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Stefanie Weisman (The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College)
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Everybody needs a place where they feel protected, secure, and welcome. Everybody yearns for a place where they can relax and be fully themselves. Ideally, the childhood home was one such place. For those of us who felt accepted and loved by our parents, our home provided this warmth. It was a heartwarming place—the very thing that everybody yearns for. And we internalize this feeling from childhood—that of being accepted and welcome—as a fundamental, positive attitude toward life that accompanies us through adulthood: we feel secure in the world and in our own life. We’re self-confident and trusting of others. There’s the notion of basic trust, which is like a home within ourselves, providing us with internal support and protection. Many people, however, associate their childhood with largely negative experiences, some even traumatic. Others had an unhappy childhood, but have repressed those memories. They can barely recall what happened. Then there are those who believe their childhood was “normal” or even “happy,” only to discover, upon closer examination, that they have been deluding themselves. And though people may attempt to repress or, as an adult, downplay childhood experiences of insecurity or rejection, there are moments in everyday life that will reveal how underdeveloped their basic trust remains. They have self-esteem issues and frequently doubt that they are welcome and that their coworkers, romantic partner, boss, or new friend truly likes them. They don’t really like themselves all that much, they have a range of insecurities, and they often struggle in relationships. Unable to develop basic trust, they therefore lack a sense of internal support. Instead, they hope that others will provide them with these feelings of security, protection, stability, and home. They search for home with their partner, their colleagues, in their softball league, or online, only to be disappointed: other people can provide this feeling of home sporadically at best. Those who lack a home on the inside will never find one on the outside. They can’t tell that they’re caught in a trap.
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Stefanie Stahl (The Child in You: The Breakthrough Method for Bringing Out Your Authentic Self)