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I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind… — Rachel Vincent
When you are tempted to get discouraged, remind yourself that according to God’s word, your future is getting brighter; you are on your way to… — Joel Osteen
(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation. — Julio Cortazar
Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our… — Julio Cortazar
Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule — Donald A. Norman
Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to… — Julian Barnes
Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and… — Carl Jung
According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly,… — Jonathan Stroud
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet,… — Ben Okri
Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we… — Orson Scott Card
Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars,… — KatÃ³ Lomb
According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all. — Jon Krakauer
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain… — Oscar Wilde
According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible. — Maureen Corrigan
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form.… — Victor Pelevin
My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a… — Isabel Allende
When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this… — David Hume
What I'm asserting is that we are looking at bisexuality the wrong way, making the identity entirely dependent on someone other that the bisexual person… — Jennifer Baumgardner
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means… — Jerry Seinfeld
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the… — Tennessee Williams
We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and… — Erich Fromm
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.… — C.S. Lewis
God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them. — Joseph Smith, Jr.

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