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When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need… — John Green
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person,… — Margaret Atwood
Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read. — Virginia Woolf
until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, Iâ€™m going… — C.S. Lewis
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out… — Charles Bukowski
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when… — Bertolt Brecht
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . .… — John F. Kennedy
I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm doing… — Lorrie Moore
For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to… — Helen Keller
The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and… — C.S. Lewis
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on… — Dorothy Allison
We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this… — Carolyn Heilbrun
Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate… — Chogyam Trungpa
When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. — Sara Zarr
I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself… — Marcel Proust
We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it… — Richard Bach
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. — Katherine Mansfield
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method. — James Thurber
All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures. — Julius Caesar

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