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Because it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.
Matthew Polly
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A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.
John A. Widtsoe
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It seems strange that the Mother of the race should be made the Slave of the Fruits of her Womb. It appears peculiar that she should have no privileges except those received through her son. It seems illogical that the God Principle of the Universe, in its infinite wisdom, should endanger the existence of the Race by making the Mother of it the weak, cringing underling of her husband.
Hilton Hotema
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
Berthold Auerbach
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When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.
David Eddings
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I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.
Sharon Olds
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But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.
Heidi Baker
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A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.
George Barr McCutcheon
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God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.
Samuel Dickey Gordon
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Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet in a pan of hot water and Epsom salts. When she gets into bed and the springs creak under her weight, she groans with the pleasure of lying stretched out on an object that understands her so well.
William Keepers Maxwell Jr.
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Nothing can stop the questing of men, not even Man. If we will it, not only the wonders of space, but the very stars are ours.
Andre Norton
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If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body
Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit,
Felt in the tingling bruises of collision,
And known to captains as esprit de corps.
Anthony Hecht
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And all about him was the wind now, a pervasive sighing trough great emptiness, as though the prairie itself was breathing in long gusting breaths, unhampered by the buildings of town, warm and living against his face and in his hair.
W. O. Mitchell
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The past is not only that which happened but also that which could have happened but did not.
Tess Gallagher
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No one who cooks cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.
Laurie Colwin
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I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.
Linda Barnes (writer)
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Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.
Sarah Kay (poet)
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We hail Science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.
Moses Harvey
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Death is a statistic for the computers.
Robert Ludlum
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Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.
Neal Asher
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We are pretty sure that we and our pets share the same reality, until one day we come home to find that our wistful, intelligent friend who reminds us of our better self has decided a good way to spend the day is to open a box of Brillo pads, unravel a few, distribute some throughout the house, and eat or wear all the rest. And we shake our heads in an inability to comprehend what went wrong here.
Merrill Markoe
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Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,
Marilynne Robinson
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When the desire ain't on me I don't need help. When it is on me I don't want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn't do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody's.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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The Christian Scientists held that it was not God Who wanted sickness, but man who [put] himself in the way of suffering. If this were the case, though, wouldn't we all die in perfect health?
Gabrielle Roy
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It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely
Robert Aickman
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